Method for transmitting a feedback information in a wireless communication system

ABSTRACT

A method of performing an operation for a first user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system includes transmitting a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) to a second UE by the first UE, and transmitting, to a base station (BS), feedback information based on a physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) for the PSSCH on a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) by the first UE. A transmission timing of the PUCCH is determined based on information about the number of slots from the PSFCH to the PUCCH.

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

This application claims the benefit of priority to U.S. ProvisionalApplication No. 62/938,317, filed on Nov. 20, 2019, and KoreanApplication No. 10-2019-0003858, filed on Jan. 11, 2019. The disclosuresof the prior applications are incorporated by reference in theirentirety.

TECHNICAL FIELD

The present disclosure relates to a wireless communication system, andmore particularly, to a method and apparatus related to a feedbackinformation transmission timing.

BACKGROUND

Wireless communication systems have been widely deployed to providevarious types of communication services such as voice or data. Ingeneral, a wireless communication system is a multiple access systemthat supports communication of multiple users by sharing availablesystem resources (a bandwidth, transmission power, etc.). Examples ofmultiple access systems include a code division multiple access (CDMA)system, a frequency division multiple access (FDMA) system, a timedivision multiple access (TDMA) system, an orthogonal frequency divisionmultiple access (OFDMA) system, a single carrier frequency divisionmultiple access (SC-FDMA) system, and a multi carrier frequency divisionmultiple access (MC-FDMA) system.

A wireless communication system uses various radio access technologies(RATs) such as long term evolution (LTE), LTE-advanced (LTE-A), andwireless fidelity (WiFi). 5^(th) generation (5G) is such a wirelesscommunication system. Three key requirement areas of 5G include (1)enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB), (2) massive machine type communication(mMTC), and (3) ultra-reliable and low latency communications (URLLC).Some use cases may require multiple dimensions for optimization, whileothers may focus only on one key performance indicator (KPI). 5Gsupports such diverse use cases in a flexible and reliable way.

eMBB goes far beyond basic mobile Internet access and covers richinteractive work, media and entertainment applications in the cloud oraugmented reality (AR). Data is one of the key drivers for 5G and in the5G era, we may for the first time see no dedicated voice service. In 5G,voice is expected to be handled as an application program, simply usingdata connectivity; provided by a communication system. The main driversfor an increased traffic volume are the increase in the size of contentand the number of applications requiring high data rates. Streamingservices (audio and video), interactive video, and mobile Internetconnectivity will continue to be used more broadly as more devicesconnect to the Internet. Many of these applications require always-onconnectivity to push real time information and notifications to users.Cloud storage and applications are rapidly increasing for mobilecommunication platforms. This is applicable for both work andentertainment. Cloud storage is one particular use case driving thegrowth of uplink data rates. 5G will also be used for remote work in thecloud which, when done with tactile interfaces, requires much lowerend-to-end latencies in order to maintain a good user experience.Entertainment, for example, cloud gaming and video streaming, is anotherkey driver for the increasing need for mobile broadband capacity.Entertainment will be very essential on smart phones and tabletseverywhere, including high mobility environments such as trains, carsand airplanes. Another use case is augmented reality (AR) forentertainment and information search, which requires very low latenciesand significant instant data volumes.

One of the most expected 5G use cases is the functionality of activelyconnecting embedded sensors in every field, that is, mMTC. It isexpected that there will be 20.4 billion potential Internet of things(IoT) devices by 2020. In industrial IoT, 5G is one of areas that playkey roles in enabling smart city, asset tracking, smart utility,agriculture, and security infrastructure.

URLLC includes services which will transform industries withultra-reliable/available, low latency links such as remote control ofcritical infrastructure and self-driving vehicles. The level ofreliability and latency are vital to smart-grid control, industrialautomation, robotics, drone control and coordination, and so on.

Now, multiple use cases will be described in detail. 5G may complementfiber-to-the home (FTTH) and cable-based broadband (or data-over-cableservice interface specifications (DOCSIS)) as a means of providingstreams at data rates of hundreds of megabits per second to giga bitsper second. Such a high speed is required for TV broadcasts at or abovea resolution of 4K (6K, 8K, and higher) as well as virtual reality (VR)and AR. VR and AR applications mostly include immersive sport games. Aspecial network configuration may be required for a specific applicationprogram. For VR games, for example, game companies may have to integratea core server with an edge network server of a network operator in orderto minimize latency.

The automotive sector is expected to be a very important new driver for5G, with many use cases for mobile communications for vehicles. Forexample, entertainment for passengers requires simultaneous highcapacity and high mobility mobile broadband, because future users willexpect to continue their good quality connection independent of theirlocation and speed. Other use cases for the automotive sector are ARdashboards. These display overlay information on top of what a driver isseeing through the front window, identifying objects in the dark andtelling the driver about the distances and movements of the objects. Inthe future, wireless modules will enable communication between vehiclesthemselves, information exchange between vehicles and supportinginfrastructure and between vehicles and other connected devices (e.g.,those carried by pedestrians). Safety systems may guide drivers onalternative courses of action to allow them to drive more safely andlower the risks of accidents. The next stage will be remote-controlledor self-driving vehicles. These require very reliable, very fastcommunication between different self-driving vehicles and betweenvehicles and infrastructure. In the future, self-driving vehicles willexecute all driving activities, while drivers are focusing on trafficabnormality elusive to the vehicles themselves. The technicalrequirements for self-driving vehicles call for ultra-low latencies andultra-high reliability, increasing traffic safety to levels humanscannot achieve.

Smart cities and smart homes, often referred to as smart society, willbe embedded with dense wireless sensor networks. Distributed networks ofintelligent sensors will identify conditions for cost- andenergy-efficient maintenance of the city or home. A similar setup can bedone for each home, where temperature sensors, window and heatingcontrollers, burglar alarms, and home appliances are all connectedwirelessly. Many of these sensors are typically characterized by lowdata rate, low power, and low cost, but for example, real time highdefinition (HD) video may be required in some types of devices forsurveillance.

The consumption and distribution of energy, including heat or gas, isbecoming highly decentralized, creating the need for automated controlof a very distributed sensor network. A smart grid interconnects suchsensors, using digital information and communications technology togather and act on information. This information may include informationabout the behaviors of suppliers and consumers, allowing the smart gridto improve the efficiency, reliability, economics and sustainability ofthe production and distribution of fuels such as electricity in anautomated fashion. A smart grid may be seen as another sensor networkwith low delays.

The health sector has many applications that may benefit from mobilecommunications. Communications systems enable telemedicine, whichprovides clinical health care at a distance. It helps eliminate distancebarriers and may improve access to medical services that would often notbe consistently available in distant rural communities. It is also usedto save lives in critical care and emergency situations. Wireless sensornetworks based on mobile communication may provide remote monitoring andsensors for parameters such as heart rate and blood pressure.

Wireless and mobile communications are becoming increasingly importantfor industrial applications. Wires are expensive to install andmaintain, and the possibility of replacing cables with reconfigurablewireless links is a tempting opportunity for many industries. However,achieving this requires that the wireless connection works with asimilar delay, reliability and capacity as cables and that itsmanagement is simplified. Low delays and very low error probabilitiesare new requirements that need to be addressed with 5G.

Finally, logistics and freight tracking are important use cases formobile communications that enable the tracking of inventory and packageswherever they are by using location-based information systems. Thelogistics and freight tracking use cases typically require lower datarates but need wide coverage and reliable location information.

A wireless communication system is a multiple access system thatsupports communication of multiple users by sharing available systemresources (a bandwidth, transmission power, etc.). Examples of multipleaccess systems include a CDMA system, an FDMA system, a TDMA system, anOFDMA system, an SC-FDMA system, and an MC-FDMA system.

Sidelink (SL) refers to a communication scheme in which a direct link isestablished between user equipments (UEs) and the UEs directly exchangevoice or data without intervention of a base station (BS). SL isconsidered as a solution of relieving the BS of the constraint ofrapidly growing data traffic.

Vehicle-to-everything (V2X) is a communication technology in which avehicle exchanges information with another vehicle, a pedestrian, andinfrastructure by wired/wireless communication. V2X may be categorizedinto four types: vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V), vehicle-to-infrastructure(V2I), vehicle-to-network (V2N), and vehicle-to-pedestrian (V2P). V2Xcommunication may be provided via a PC5 interface and/or a Uu interface.

As more and more communication devices demand larger communicationcapacities, there is a need for enhanced mobile broadband communicationrelative to existing RATs. Accordingly, a communication system is underdiscussion, for which services or UEs sensitive to reliability andlatency are considered. The next-generation RAT in which eMBB, MTC, andURLLC are considered is referred to as new RAT or NR. In NR, V2Xcommunication may also be supported.

FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating V2X communication based on pre-NR RATand V2X communication based on NR in comparison.

For V2X communication, a technique of providing safety service based onV2X messages such as basic safety message (BSM), cooperative awarenessmessage (CAM), and decentralized environmental notification message(DENM) was mainly discussed in the pre-NR RAT. The V2X message mayinclude location information, dynamic information, and attributeinformation. For example, a UE may transmit a CAM of a periodic messagetype and/or a DENM of an event-triggered type to another UE.

For example, the CAM may include basic vehicle information includingdynamic state information such as a direction and a speed, vehiclestatic data such as dimensions, an external lighting state, pathdetails, and so on. For example, the UE may broadcast the CAM which mayhave a latency less than 100 ms. For example, when an unexpectedincident occurs, such as breakage or an accident of a vehicle, the UEmay generate the DENM and transmit the DENM to another UE. For example,all vehicles within the transmission range of the UE may receive the CAMand/or the DENM. In this case, the DENM may have priority over the CAM.

In relation to V2X communication, various V2X scenarios are presented inNR. For example, the V2X scenarios include vehicle platooning, advanceddriving, extended sensors, and remote driving.

For example, vehicles may be dynamically grouped and travel togetherbased on vehicle platooning. For example, to perform platoon operationsbased on vehicle platooning, the vehicles of the group may receiveperiodic data from a leading vehicle. For example, the vehicles of thegroup may widen or narrow their gaps based on the periodic data.

For example, a vehicle may be semi-automated or full-automated based onadvanced driving. For example, each vehicle may adjust a trajectory ormaneuvering based on data obtained from a nearby vehicle and/or a nearbylogical entity. For example, each vehicle may also share a dividingintention with nearby vehicles.

Based on extended sensors, for example, raw or processed data obtainedthrough local sensor or live video data may be exchanged betweenvehicles, logical entities, terminals of pedestrians and/or V2Xapplication servers. Accordingly, a vehicle may perceive an advancedenvironment relative to an environment perceivable by its sensor.

Based on remote driving, for example, a remote driver or a V2Xapplication may operate or control a remote vehicle on behalf of aperson incapable of driving or in a dangerous environment. For example,when a path may be predicted as in public transportation, cloudcomputing-based driving may be used in operating or controlling theremote vehicle. For example, access to a cloud-based back-end serviceplatform may also be used for remote driving.

A scheme of specifying service requirements for various V2X scenariosincluding vehicle platooning, advanced driving, extended sensors, andremote driving is under discussion in NR-based V2X communication.

SUMMARY

Provided is a method of determining a signal and information based onwhich feedback information is determined.

It will be appreciated by persons skilled in the art that the objectsthat could be achieved with the present disclosure are not limited towhat has been particularly described hereinabove and the above and otherobjects that the present disclosure could achieve will be more clearlyunderstood from the following detailed description.

According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method ofperforming an operation for a first user equipment (UE) in a wirelesscommunication system includes transmitting a physical sidelink sharedchannel (PSSCH) to a second UE by the first UE, and transmitting, to abase station (BS), feedback information based on a physical sidelinkfeedback channel (PSFCH) for the PSSCH on a physical uplink controlchannel (PUCCH) by the first UE. A transmission timing of the PUCCH isdetermined based on information about the number of slots from the PSFCHto the PUCCH.

According to another embodiment of the present disclosure, an apparatusin a wireless communication system includes at least one processor, andat least one computer memory operatively coupled to the at least oneprocessor and storing instructions causing the at least one processor toperform operations. The operations include transmitting a PSSCH to asecond UE by a first UE, and transmitting, to a BS, feedback informationbased on a PSFCH for the PSSCH on a PUCCH by the first UE. Atransmission timing of the PUCCH is determined based on informationabout the number of slots from the PSFCH to the PUCCH.

The feedback information may be hybrid automatic repeat request(HARQ)-acknowledgment (ACK) information related to the PSFCH for thePSSCH.

The information about the number of slots may be included in downlinkcontrol information (DCI) received by the first UE.

The DCI may be received on a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH)related to the PSSCH.

The information about the number of slots may be received throughhigher-layer signaling by the first UE.

The method may further include receiving the PSFCH for the PSSCH fromthe second UE by the first UE.

The feedback information may be HARQ-ACK information related to thePSFCH for the PSSCH.

The information about the number of slots may be included in DCIreceived by the first UE.

The DCI may be received on a PDCCH related to the PSSCH.

The information about the number of slots may be received throughhigher-layer signaling by the first UE.(

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The first UE may be an autonomous driving vehicle or may be included inthe autonomous driving vehicle.

According to another embodiment of the present disclosure, acomputer-readable storage medium stores at least one computer programincluding instructions which, when executed by at least one processor,cause the at least one processor to perform operations for a UE. Theoperations include transmitting a PSSCH to a second UE by a first UE,and transmitting, to a BS, feedback information based on a PSFCH for thePSSCH on a PUCCH by the first UE. A transmission timing of the PUCCH isdetermined based on information about the number of slots from the PSFCHto the PUCCH.

According to an embodiment of the disclosure, feedback information maybe transmitted and received most rapidly at regular time points.

It will be appreciated by persons skilled in the art that the effectsthat can be achieved with the present disclosure are not limited to whathas been particularly described hereinabove and other advantages of thepresent disclosure will be more clearly understood from the followingdetailed description taken in conjunction with the accompanyingdrawings.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The accompanying drawings, which are included to provide a furtherunderstanding of the disclosure, illustrate embodiments of thedisclosure and together with the description serve to explain theprinciple of the disclosure.

In the drawings:

FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating vehicle-to-everything (V2X)communication based on pre-new radio access technology (NR) RAT and V2Xcommunication based on NR in comparison;

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating the structure of a long term evolution(LTE) system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating user-plane and control-plane radioprotocol architectures according to an embodiment of the presentdisclosure;

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating the structure of an NR system accordingto an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating functional split between a nextgeneration radio access network (NG-RAN) and a 5^(th) generation corenetwork (5GC) according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating the structure of an NR radio frame towhich embodiment(s) of the present disclosure is applicable;

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating a slot structure in an NR frameaccording to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating radio protocol architectures forsidelink (SL) communication according to an embodiment of the presentdisclosure;

FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating radio protocol architectures for SLcommunication according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating the structure of a secondarysynchronization signal block (S-SSB) in a normal cyclic prefix (NCP)case according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating the structure of an S-SSB in anextended cyclic prefix (ECP) case according to an embodiment of thepresent disclosure;

FIG. 12 is a diagram illustrating user equipments (UEs) which conductV2X or SL communication between them according to an embodiment of thepresent disclosure;

FIG. 13 is diagram illustrating resource units for V2X or SLcommunication according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 14 is a diagram illustrating signal flows for V2X or SLcommunication procedures of a UE according to transmission modesaccording to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 15 is a diagram illustrating three cast types according to anembodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 16 is a block diagram illustrating a UE including an LTE module andan NR mode according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 17 is a diagram illustrating a procedure of transmitting a radioresource control (RRC) message according to an embodiment of the presentdisclosure;

FIG. 18 is a diagram illustrating uni-directional delivery of UEcapability information according to an embodiment of the presentdisclosure;

FIG. 19 is a diagram illustrating bi-directional delivery of UEcapability information according to an embodiment of the presentdisclosure;

FIG. 20 is a diagram illustrating a bi-directional access stratum (AS)layer configuration according to an embodiment of the presentdisclosure;

FIG. 21 is a diagram illustrating physical (PHY)-layer processing at atransmitting side according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 22 is a diagram illustrating PHY-layer processing at a receivingside according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 23 is a diagram illustrating an exemplary architecture in a 5Gsystem, for positioning a UE which has accessed an NG-RAN or an evolvedUMTS terrestrial radio access network (E-UTRAN) according to anembodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 24 is a diagram illustrating an implementation example of a networkfor positioning a UE according to an embodiment of the presentdisclosure;

FIG. 25 is a diagram illustrating exemplary protocol layers used tosupport LTE positioning protocol (LPP) message transmission between alocation management function (LMF) and a UE according to an embodimentof the present disclosure;

FIG. 26 is a diagram illustrating exemplary protocol layers used tosupport NR positioning protocol A (NRPPa) protocol data unittransmission between an LMF and an NG-RAN node according to anembodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 27 is a diagram illustrating an observed time difference of arrival(OTDOA) positioning method according to an embodiment of the presentdisclosure;

FIG. 28 is a diagram illustrating a synchronization source orsynchronization reference in V2X according to an embodiment of thepresent disclosure;

FIG. 29 is a diagram illustrating a plurality of bandwidth parts (BWPs)according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 30 is a diagram illustrating a BWP according to an embodiment ofthe present disclosure;

FIG. 31 is a diagram illustrating a resource unit for channel busy ratio(SBR) measurement according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 32 is a diagram illustrating exemplary multiplexing between aphysical sidelink control channel (PSCCH) and a physical sidelink sharedchannel (PSSCH);

FIG. 33 is a diagram illustrating PHY-layer processing for SL accordingto an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 34 is a diagram illustrating a system environment considered inembodiment(s) of the present disclosure;

FIGS. 35 and 36 are diagrams illustrating embodiment(s) of the presentdisclosure; and

FIGS. 37 to 46 are block diagrams illustrating various devicesapplicable to embodiment(s) of the present disclosure.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

In various embodiments of the present disclosure, “I” and “,” should beinterpreted as “and/or”. For example, “A/B” may mean “A and/or B”.Further, “A, B” may mean “A and/or B”. Further, “AB/C” may mean “atleast one of A, B and/or C”. Further, “A, B, C” may mean “at least oneof A, B and/or C”.

In various embodiments of the present disclosure, “or” should beinterpreted as “and/or”. For example, “A or B” may include “only A”,“only B”, and/or “both A and B”. In other words, “or” should beinterpreted as “additionally or alternatively”.

Techniques described herein may be used in various wireless accesssystems such as code division multiple access (CDMA), frequency divisionmultiple access (FDMA), time division multiple access (TDMA), orthogonalfrequency division multiple access (OFDMA), single carrier-frequencydivision multiple access (SC-FDMA), and so on. CDMA may be implementedas a radio technology such as universal terrestrial radio access (UTRA)or CDMA2000. TDMA may be implemented as a radio technology such asglobal system for mobile communications (GSM)/general packet radioservice (GPRS)/Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE). OFDMA maybe implemented as a radio technology such as IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi), IEEE802.16 (WiMAX), IEEE 802.20, evolved-UTRA (E-UTRA), or the like. IEEE802.16m is an evolution of IEEE 802.16e, offering backward compatibilitywith an IRRR 802.16e-based system. UTRA is a part of universal mobiletelecommunications system (UMTS). 3^(rd) generation partnership project(3GPP) long term evolution (LTE) is a part of evolved UMTS (E-UMTS)using evolved UTRA (E-UTRA). 3GPP LTE employs OFDMA for downlink (DL)and SC-FDMA for uplink (UL). LTE-advanced (LTE-A) is an evolution of3GPP LTE.

A successor to LTE-A, 5^(th) generation (5G) new radio access technology(NR) is a new clean-state mobile communication system characterized byhigh performance, low latency, and high availability. 5G NR may use allavailable spectral resources including a low frequency band below 1 GHz,an intermediate frequency band between 1 GHz and 10 GHz, and a highfrequency (millimeter) band of 24 GHz or above.

While the following description is given mainly in the context of LTE-Aor 5G NR for the clarity of description, the technical idea of anembodiment of the present disclosure is not limited thereto.

FIG. 2 illustrates the structure of an LTE system according to anembodiment of the present disclosure. This may also be called an evolvedUMTS terrestrial radio access network (E-UTRAN) or LTE/LTE-A system.

Referring to FIG. 2, the E-UTRAN includes evolved Node Bs (eNBs) 20which provide a control plane and a user plane to UEs 10. A UE 10 may befixed or mobile, and may also be referred to as a mobile station (MS),user terminal (UT), subscriber station (SS), mobile terminal (MT), orwireless device. An eNB 20 is a fixed station communication with the UE10 and may also be referred to as a base station (BS), a basetransceiver system (BTS), or an access point.

eNBs 20 may be connected to each other via an X2 interface. An eNB 20 isconnected to an evolved packet core (EPC) 39 via an S1 interface. Morespecifically, the eNB 20 is connected to a mobility management entity(MME) via an S1-MME interface and to a serving gateway (S-GW) via anS1-U interface.

The EPC 30 includes an MME, an S-GW, and a packet data network-gateway(P-GW). The MME has access information or capability information aboutUEs, which are mainly used for mobility management of the UEs. The S-GWis a gateway having the E-UTRAN as an end point, and the P-GW is agateway having a packet data network (PDN) as an end point.

Based on the lowest three layers of the open system interconnection(OSI) reference model known in communication systems, the radio protocolstack between a UE and a network may be divided into Layer 1 (L1), Layer2 (L2) and Layer 3 (L3). These layers are defined in pairs between a UEand an Evolved UTRAN (E-UTRAN), for data transmission via the Uuinterface. The physical (PHY) layer at L1 provides an informationtransfer service on physical channels. The radio resource control (RRC)layer at L3 functions to control radio resources between the UE and thenetwork. For this purpose, the RRC layer exchanges RRC messages betweenthe UE and an eNB.

FIG. 3(a) illustrates a user-plane radio protocol architecture accordingto an embodiment of the disclosure.

FIG. 3(b) illustrates a control-plane radio protocol architectureaccording to an embodiment of the disclosure. A user plane is a protocolstack for user data transmission, and a control plane is a protocolstack for control signal transmission.

Referring to FIGS. 3(a) and 3(b), the PHY layer provides an informationtransfer service to its higher layer on physical channels. The PHY layeris connected to the medium access control (MAC) layer through transportchannels and data is transferred between the MAC layer and the PHY layeron the transport channels. The transport channels are divided accordingto features with which data is transmitted via a radio interface.

Data is transmitted on physical channels between different PHY layers,that is, the PHY layers of a transmitter and a receiver. The physicalchannels may be modulated in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing(OFDM) and use time and frequencies as radio resources.

The MAC layer provides services to a higher layer, radio link control(RLC) on logical channels. The MAC layer provides a function of mappingfrom a plurality of logical channels to a plurality of transportchannels. Further, the MAC layer provides a logical channel multiplexingfunction by mapping a plurality of logical channels to a singletransport channel. A MAC sublayer provides a data transmission serviceon the logical channels.

The RLC layer performs concatenation, segmentation, and reassembly forRLC serving data units (SDUs). In order to guarantee various quality ofservice (QoS) requirements of each radio bearer (RB), the RLC layerprovides three operation modes, transparent mode (TM), unacknowledgedmode (UM), and acknowledged Mode (AM). An AM RLC provides errorcorrection through automatic repeat request (ARQ).

The RRC layer is defined only in the control plane and controls logicalchannels, transport channels, and physical channels in relation toconfiguration, reconfiguration, and release of RBs. An RB refers to alogical path provided by L1 (the PHY layer) and L2 (the MAC layer, theRLC layer, and the packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) layer), fordata transmission between the UE and the network.

The user-plane functions of the PDCP layer include user datatransmission, header compression, and ciphering. The control-planefunctions of the PDCP layer include control-plane data transmission andciphering/integrity protection.

RB establishment amounts to a process of defining radio protocol layersand channel features and configuring specific parameters and operationmethods in order to provide a specific service. RBs may be classifiedinto two types, signaling radio bearer (SRB) and data radio bearer(DRB). The SRB is used as a path in which an RRC message is transmittedon the control plane, whereas the DRB is used as a path in which userdata is transmitted on the user plane.

Once an RRC connection is established between the RRC layer of the UEand the RRC layer of the E-UTRAN, the UE is placed in RRC_CONNECTEDstate, and otherwise, the UE is placed in RRC_IDLE state. In NR,RRC_INACTIVE state is additionally defined. A UE in the RRC_INACTIVEstate may maintain a connection to a core network, while releasing aconnection from an eNB.

DL transport channels carrying data from the network to the UE include abroadcast channel (BCH) on which system information is transmitted and aDL shared channel (DL SCH) on which user traffic or a control message istransmitted. Traffic or a control message of a DL multicast or broadcastservice may be transmitted on the DL-SCH or a DL multicast channel (DLMCH). UL transport channels carrying data from the UE to the networkinclude a random access channel (RACH) on which an initial controlmessage is transmitted and an UL shared channel (UL SCH) on which usertraffic or a control message is transmitted.

The logical channels which are above and mapped to the transportchannels include a broadcast control channel (BCCH), a paging controlchannel (PCCH), a common control channel (CCCH), a multicast controlchannel (MCCH), and a multicast traffic channel (MTCH).

A physical channel includes a plurality of OFDM symbol in the timedomain by a plurality of subcarriers in the frequency domain. Onesubframe includes a plurality of OFDM symbols in the time domain. An RBis a resource allocation unit defined by a plurality of OFDM symbols bya plurality of subcarriers. Further, each subframe may use specificsubcarriers of specific OFDM symbols (e.g., the first OFDM symbol) in acorresponding subframe for a physical DL control channel (PDCCH), thatis, an L1/L2 control channel. A transmission time interval (TTI) is aunit time for subframe transmission.

FIG. 4 illustrates the structure of an NR system according to anembodiment of the present disclosure.

Referring to FIG. 4, a next generation radio access network (NG-RAN) mayinclude a next generation Node B (gNB) and/or an eNB, which providesuser-plane and control-plane protocol termination to a UE. In FIG. 4,the NG-RAN is shown as including only gNBs, by way of example. A gNB andan eNB are connected to each other via an Xn interface. The gNB and theeNB are connected to a 5G core network (5GC) via an NG interface. Morespecifically, the gNB and the eNB are connected to an access andmobility management function (AMF) via an NG-C interface and to a userplane function (UPF) via an NG-U interface.

FIG. 5 illustrates functional split between the NG-RAN and the 5GCaccording to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

Referring to FIG. 5, a gNB may provide functions including inter-cellradio resource management (RRM), radio admission control, measurementconfiguration and provision, and dynamic resource allocation. The AMFmay provide functions such as non-access stratum (NAS) security andidle-state mobility processing. The UPF may provide functions includingmobility anchoring and protocol data unit (PDU) processing. A sessionmanagement function (SMF) may provide functions including UE Internetprotocol (IP) address allocation and PDU session control FIG. 6illustrates a radio frame structure in NR, to which embodiment(s) of thepresent disclosure is applicable.

Referring to FIG. 6, a radio frame may be used for UL transmission andDL transmission in NR. A radio frame is 10 ms in length, and may bedefined by two 5-ms half-frames. An HF may include five 1-ms subframes.A subframe may be divided into one or more slots, and the number ofslots in an SF may be determined according to a subcarrier spacing(SCS). Each slot may include 12 or 14 OFDM(A) symbols according to acyclic prefix (CP).

In a normal CP (NCP) case, each slot may include 14 symbols, whereas inan extended CP (ECP) case, each slot may include 12 symbols. Herein, asymbol may be an OFDM symbol (or CP-OFDM symbol) or an SC-FDMA symbol(or DFT-s-OFDM symbol).

Table 1 below lists the number of symbols per slot N^(slot) _(symb), thenumber of slots per frame N^(frame,u) _(slot), and the number of slotsper subframe N^(subframe,u) _(slot) according to an SCS configuration μin the NCP case.

TABLE 1 SCS (15*2u) N^(slot) _(symb) N^(frame, u) _(slot) N^(frame, u)_(slot) 15 KHz (u = 0) 14 10 1 30 KHz (u = 1) 14 20 2 60 KHz (u = 2) 1440 4 120 KHz (u = 3)  14 80 8 240 KHz (u = 4)  14 160 16

Table 2 below lists the number of symbols per slot, the number of slotsper frame, and the number of slots per subframe according to an SCS inthe ECP case.

TABLE 2 SCS (15*2{circumflex over ( )}u) N^(slot) _(symb) N^(frame, u)_(slot) N^(subframe, u) _(slot) 60 KHz (u = 2) 12 40 4

In the NR system, different OFDM(A) numerologies (e.g., SCSs, CPlengths, and so on) may be configured for a plurality of cellsaggregated for one UE. Accordingly, the (absolute time) duration of atime resource including the same number of symbols (e.g., a subframe,slot, or TTI) (collectively referred to as a time unit (TU) forconvenience) may be configured to be different for the aggregated cells.

In NR, various numerologies or SCSs may be supported to support various5G services. For example, with an SCS of 15 kHz, a wide area intraditional cellular bands may be supported, while with an SCS of 30kHz/60 kHz, a dense urban area, a lower latency, and a wide carrierbandwidth may be supported. With an SCS of 60 kHz or higher, a bandwidthlarger than 24.25 GHz may be supported to overcome phase noise.

An NR frequency band may be defined by two types of frequency ranges,FR1 and FR2. The numerals in each frequency range may be changed. Forexample, the two types of frequency ranges may be given in [Table 3]. Inthe NR system, FR1 may be a “sub 6 GHz range” and FR2 may be an “above 6GHz range” called millimeter wave (mmW).

TABLE 3 Frequency Range Corresponding frequency Subcarrier Spacingdesignation range (SCS) FR1  450 MHz-6000 MHz  15, 30, 60 kHz FR2 24250MHz-52600 MHz 60, 120, 240 kHz

As mentioned above, the numerals in a frequency range may be changed inthe NR system. For example, FR1 may range from 410 MHz to 7125 MHz aslisted in [Table 4]. That is, FR1 may include a frequency band of 6 GHz(or 5850, 5900, and 5925 MHz) or above. For example, the frequency bandof 6 GHz (or 5850, 5900, and 5925 MHz) or above may include anunlicensed band. The unlicensed band may be used for various purposes,for example, vehicle communication (e.g., autonomous driving).

TABLE 4 Frequency Range Corresponding frequency Subcarrier Spacingdesignation range (SCS) FR1  410 MHz-7125 MHz  15, 30, 60 kHz FR2 24250MHz-52600 MHz 60, 120, 240 kHz

FIG. 7 illustrates a slot structure in an NR frame according to anembodiment of the present disclosure.

Referring to FIG. 7, a slot includes a plurality of symbols in the timedomain. For example, one slot may include 14 symbols in an NCP case and12 symbols in an ECP case. Alternatively, one slot may include 7 symbolsin an NCP case and 6 symbols in an ECP case.

A carrier includes a plurality of subcarriers in the frequency domain.An RB may be defined by a plurality of (e.g., 12) consecutivesubcarriers in the frequency domain. A bandwidth part (BWP) may bedefined by a plurality of consecutive (physical) RBs ((P)RBs) in thefrequency domain and correspond to one numerology (e.g., SCS, CP length,or the like). A carrier may include up to N (e.g., 5) BWPs. Datacommunication may be conducted in an activated BWP. Each element may bereferred to as a resource element (RE) in a resource grid, to which onecomplex symbol may be mapped.

A radio interface between UEs or a radio interface between a UE and anetwork may include L1, L2, and L3. In various embodiments of thepresent disclosure, L1 may refer to the PHY layer. For example, L2 mayrefer to at least one of the MAC layer, the RLC layer, the PDCH layer,or the SDAP layer. For example, L3 may refer to the RRC layer.

Now, a description will be given of sidelink (SL) communication.

FIG. 8 illustrates a radio protocol architecture for SL communicationaccording to an embodiment of the present disclosure. Specifically, FIG.8(a) illustrates a user-plane protocol stack in LTE, and FIG. 8(b)illustrates a control-plane protocol stack in LTE.

FIG. 9 illustrates a radio protocol architecture for SL communicationaccording to an embodiment of the present disclosure. Specifically, FIG.9(a) illustrates a user-plane protocol stack in NR, and FIG. 9(b)illustrates a control-plane protocol stack in NR.

Sidelink synchronization signals (SLSSs) and synchronization informationwill be described below.

The SLSSs, which are SL-specific sequences, may include a primarysidelink synchronization signal (PSSS) and a secondary sidelinksynchronization signal (SSSS). The PSSS may be referred to as a sidelinkprimary synchronization signal (S-PSS), and the SSSS may be referred toas a sidelink secondary synchronization signal (S-SSS). For example,length-127 M-sequences may be used for the S-PSS, and length-127gold-sequences may be used for the S-SSS. For example, the UE may detectan initial signal and acquire synchronization by using the S-PSS. Forexample, the UE may acquire fine synchronization and detect asynchronization signal ID, by using the S-PSS and the S-SSS.

A physical sidelink broadcast channel (PSBCH) may be a (broadcast)channel carrying basic (system) information that the UE needs to firstknow before transmitting and receiving an SL signal. For example, thebasic information may include information related to the SLSSs, duplexmode (DM) information, time division duplex (TDD) UL/DL (UL/DL)configuration information, resource pool-related information,information about the type of an application related to the SLSSs,subframe offset information, broadcast information, and so on. Forexample, the payload size of the PSBCH may be 56 bits, including a24-bit cyclic redundancy check (CRC), for evaluation of PSBCHperformance in NR V2X.

The S-PSS, S-SSS, and PSBCH may be included in a block format (e.g., SLsynchronization signal (SL SS)/PSBCH block, hereinafter, referred to assidelink-synchronization signal block (S-SSB)) supporting periodictransmission. The S-SSB may have the same numerology (i.e., SCS and CPlength) as a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH)/physical sidelinkshared channel (PSSCH) in a carrier, and the transmission bandwidth ofthe S-SSB may be within a (pre)configured SL BWP. For example, thebandwidth of the S-SSB may be 11 RBs. For example, the PSBCH may span 11RBs. The frequency position of the S-SSB may be (pre)set. Therefore, theUE does not need to perform hypothesis detection in a frequency todiscover the S-SSB in the carrier.

In the NR SL system, a plurality of numerologies including differentSCSs and/or CP lengths may be supported. As an SCS increases, the lengthof a time resource for S-SSB transmission of a UE may be shortened.Accordingly, in order to ensure coverage of the S-SSB, a transmitting UEmay transmit one or more S-SSBs to a receiving terminal within one S-SSBtransmission period according to the SCS. For example, the number ofS-SSBs that the transmitting terminal transmits to the receivingterminal within one S-SSB transmission period may be pre-configured orconfigured for the transmitting UE. For example, the S-SSB transmissionperiod may be 160 ms. For example, for all SCSs, an S-SSB transmissionperiod of 160 ms may be supported.

For example, when the SCS is 15 kHz in FR1, the transmitting UE maytransmit one or two S-SSBs to the receiving UE within one S-SSBtransmission period. For example, when the SCS is 30 kHz in FR1, thetransmitting UE may transmit one or two S-SSBs to the receiving UEwithin one S-SSB transmission period. For example, when the SCS is 60kHz in FR1, the transmitting UE may transmit one, two or four S-SSBs tothe receiving UE within one S-SSB transmission period.

For example, when the SCS is 60 kHz in FR2, the transmitting UE maytransmit 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, or 32 S-SSBs to the receiving UE within oneS-SSB transmission period. For example, when the SCS is 120 kHz in FR2,the transmitting UE may transmit 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, or 64 S-SSBs to thereceiving UE within one S-SSB transmission period.

When the SCS is 60 kHz, two types of CPs may be supported. Further, thestructure of an S-SSB transmitted by the transmitting UE to thereceiving UE may be different according to a CP type. For example, theCP type may be an NCP or an ECP. Specifically, for example, when the CPtype is NCP, the number of symbols to which the PSBCH is mapped in theS-SSB transmitted by the transmitting UE may be 9 or 8. On the otherhand, for example, when the CP type is ECP, the number of symbols towhich the PSBCH is mapped in the S-SSB transmitted by the transmittingUE may be 7 or 6. For example, the PSBCH may be mapped to the firstsymbol of the S-SSB transmitted by the transmitting UE. For example,upon receipt of the S-SSB, the receiving UE may perform an automaticgain control (AGC) operation in the first symbol period of the S-SSB.

FIG. 10 illustrates the structure of an S-SSB in an NCP case accordingto an embodiment of the present disclosure.

For example, when the CP type is NCP, FIG. 10 may be referred to for thestructure of the S-SSB, that is, the order of symbols to which theS-PSS, S-SSS and PSBCH are mapped in the S-SSB transmitted by thetransmitting UE.

FIG. 11 illustrates the structure of an S-SSB in an ECP case accordingto an embodiment of the present disclosure.

In the ECP case, for example, the number of symbols to which the PSBCHis mapped after the S-SSS in the S-SSB may be 6, unlike FIG. 10.Therefore, the coverage of the S-SSB may be different depending onwhether the CP type is NCP or ECP.

Each SLSS may have a sidelink synchronization identifier (SLSS ID).

For example, in LTE SL or LTE V2X, the values of SLSS IDs may be definedbased on combinations of two different S-PSS sequences and 168 differentS-SSS sequences. For example, the number of SLSS IDs may be 336. Forexample, the value of an SLSS ID may be any one of 0 to 335.

For example, in NR SL or NR V2X, the values of SLSS IDs may be definedbased on combinations of two different S-PSS sequences and 336 differentS-SSS sequences. For example, the number of SLSS IDs may be 672. Forexample, the value of an SLSS ID may be any one of 0 to 671. Forexample, one of the two different S-PSSs may be associated within-coverage and the other S-PSS may be associated with out-of-coverage.For example, the SLSS ID of 0 to 335 may be used for in-coverage,whereas the SLSS IDs of 336 to 671 may be used for out-coverage.

In order to improve the S-SSB reception performance of the receiving UE,the transmitting UE needs to optimize transmission power according tothe characteristics of each signal included in the S-SSB. For example,the transmitting UE may determine a maximum power reduction (MPR) valuefor each signal included in the S-SSB according to the peak-to-averagepower ratio (PAPR) of the signal. For example, when the PAPR value isdifferent between the S-PSS and the S-SSS in the S-SSB, the transmittingUE may apply an optimal MPR value to each of the S-PSS and the S-SSS toimprove the S-SSB reception performance of the receiving UE. Forexample, a transition period may further be applied so that thetransmitting UE performs an amplification operation for each signal. Thetransition period may preserve a time required for a transmission-endamplifier of the transmitting UE to perform a normal operation at theboundary at which the transmission power of the transmitting UE ischanged. For example, the transition period may be 10 us in FR1, and 5us in FR2. For example, a search window in which the receiving UEdetects the S-PSS may be 80 ms and/or 160 ms.

FIG. 12 illustrates UEs that conduct V2X or SL communication betweenthem according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

Referring to FIG. 12, the term “UE” in V2X or SL communication maymainly refer to a terminal of a user. However, when network equipmentsuch as a BS transmits and receives a signal according to a UE-to-UEcommunication scheme, the BS may also be regarded as a kind of UE. Forexample, a first UE (UE1) may be a first device 100 and a second UE(UE2) may be a second device 200.

For example, UE1 may select a resource unit corresponding to specificresources in a resource pool which is a set of resources. UE1 may thentransmit an SL signal in the resource unit. For example, UE2, which is areceiving UE, may be configured with the resource pool in which UE1 maytransmit a signal, and detect the signal from UE1 in the resource pool.

When UE1 is within the coverage of the BS, the BS may indicate theresource pool to UE1. On the contrary, when UE1 is outside the coverageof the BS, another UE may indicate the resource pool to UE1, or UE1 mayuse a predetermined resource pool.

In general, a resource pool may include a plurality of resource units,and each UE may select one or more resource units and transmit an SLsignal in the selected resource units.

FIG. 13 illustrates resource units for V2X or SL communication accordingto an embodiment of the present disclosure.

Referring to FIG. 13, the total frequency resources of a resource poolmay be divided into NF frequency resources, and the total time resourcesof the resource pool may be divided into NT time resources. Thus, atotal of NF*NT resource units may be defined in the resource pool. FIG.13 illustrates an example in which the resource pool is repeated with aperiodicity of NT subframes.

As illustrates in FIG. 13, one resource unit (e.g., Unit #0) may appearrepeatedly with a periodicity. Alternatively, to achieve a diversityeffect in the time or frequency domain, the index of a physical resourceunit to which one logical resource unit is mapped may change over timein a predetermined pattern. In the resource unit structure, a resourcepool may refer to a set of resource units available to a UE fortransmission of an SL signal.

Resource pools may be divided into several types. For example, eachresource pool may be classified as follows according to the content ofan SL signal transmitted in the resource pool.

(1) A scheduling assignment (SA) may be a signal including informationabout the position of resources used for a transmitting UE to transmitan SL data channel, a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) or multipleinput multiple output (MIMO) transmission scheme required for datachannel demodulation, a timing advertisement (TA), and so on. The SA maybe multiplexed with the SL data in the same resource unit, fortransmission. In this case, an SA resource pool may refer to a resourcepool in which an SA is multiplexed with SL data, for transmission. TheSA may be referred to as an SL control channel.

(2) An SL data channel (PSSCH) may be a resource pool used for atransmitting UE to transmit user data. When an SA is multiplexed with SLdata in the same resource unit, for transmission, only the SL datachannel except for SA information may be transmitted in a resource poolfor the SL data channel. In other words, REs used to transmit the SAinformation in an individual resource unit in an SA resource pool maystill be used to transmit SL data in the resource pool of the SL datachannel. For example, the transmitting UE may transmit the PSSCH bymapping the PSSCH to consecutive PRBs.

(3) A discovery channel may be a resource pool used for a transmittingUE to transmit information such as its ID. The transmitting UE mayenable a neighboring UE to discover itself on the discovery channel.

Even when SL signals have the same contents as described above,different resource pools may be used according to thetransmission/reception properties of the SL signals. For example, inspite of the same SL data channel or discovery message, a differentresources pool may be used for an SL signal according to a transmissiontiming determination scheme for the SL signal (e.g., whether the SLsignal is transmitted at a reception time of a synchronization referencesignal (RS) or at a time resulting from applying a predetermined TA tothe reception time), a resource allocation scheme for the SL signal(e.g., whether a BS allocates transmission resources of an individualsignal to an individual transmitting UE or whether the individualtransmitting UE selects its own individual signal transmission resourcesin the resource pool), the signal format of the SL signal (e.g., thenumber of symbols occupied by each SL signal in one subframe, or thenumber of subframes used for transmission of one SL signal), thestrength of a signal from the BS, the transmission power of the SL UE,and so on.

Resource allocation in SL will be described below.

FIG. 14 illustrates a procedure of performing V2X or SL communicationaccording to a transmission mode in a UE according to an embodiment ofthe present disclosure. In various embodiments of the presentdisclosure, a transmission mode may also be referred to as a mode or aresource allocation mode. For the convenience of description, atransmission mode in LTE may be referred to as an LTE transmission mode,and a transmission mode in NR may be referred to as an NR resourceallocation mode.

For example, FIG. 14(a) illustrates a UE operation related to LTEtransmission mode 1 or LTE transmission mode 3. Alternatively, forexample, FIG. 14(a) illustrates a UE operation related to NR resourceallocation mode 1. For example, LTE transmission mode 1 may be appliedto general SL communication, and LTE transmission mode 3 may be appliedto V2X communication.

For example, FIG. 14(b) illustrates a UE operation related to LTEtransmission mode 2 or LTE transmission mode 4. Alternatively, forexample, FIG. 14(b) illustrates a UE operation related to NR resourceallocation mode 2.

Referring to FIG. 14(a), in LTE transmission mode 1, LTE transmissionmode 3, or NR resource allocation mode 1, a BS may schedule SL resourcesto be used for SL transmission of a UE. For example, the BS may performresource scheduling for UE1 through a PDCCH (more specifically, DLcontrol information (DCI)), and UE1 may perform V2X or SL communicationwith UE2 according to the resource scheduling. For example, UE1 maytransmit sidelink control information (SCI) to UE2 on a PSCCH, and thentransmit data based on the SCI to UE2 on a PSSCH.

For example, in NR resource allocation mode 1, a UE may be provided withor allocated resources for one or more SL transmissions of one transportblock (TB) by a dynamic grant from the BS. For example, the BS mayprovide the UE with resources for transmission of a PSCCH and/or a PSSCHby the dynamic grant. For example, a transmitting UE may report an SLhybrid automatic repeat request (SL HARQ) feedback received from areceiving UE to the BS. In this case, PUCCH resources and a timing forreporting the SL HARQ feedback to the BS may be determined based on anindication in a PDCCH, by which the BS allocates resources for SLtransmission.

For example, the DCI may indicate a slot offset between the DCIreception and a first SL transmission scheduled by the DCI. For example,a minimum gap between the DCI that schedules the SL transmissionresources and the resources of the first scheduled SL transmission maynot be smaller than a processing time of the UE.

For example, in NR resource allocation mode 1, the UE may beperiodically provided with or allocated a resource set for a pluralityof SL transmissions through a configured grant from the BS. For example,the grant to be configured may include configured grant type 1 orconfigured grant type 2. For example, the UE may determine a TB to betransmitted in each occasion indicated by a given configured grant.

For example, the BS may allocate SL resources to the UE in the samecarrier or different carriers.

For example, an NR gNB may control LTE-based SL communication. Forexample, the NR gNB may transmit NR DCI to the UE to schedule LTE SLresources. In this case, for example, a new RNTI may be defined toscramble the NR DCI. For example, the UE may include an NR SL module andan LTE SL module.

For example, after the UE including the NR SL module and the LTE SLmodule receives NR SL DCI from the gNB, the NR SL module may convert theNR SL DCI into LTE DCI type 5A, and transmit LTE DCI type 5A to the LTESL module every Xms. For example, after the LTE SL module receives LTEDCI format 5A from the NR SL module, the LTE SL module may activateand/or release a first LTE subframe after Z ms. For example, X may bedynamically indicated by a field of the DCI. For example, a minimumvalue of X may be different according to a UE capability. For example,the UE may report a single value according to its UE capability. Forexample, X may be positive.

Referring to FIG. 14(b), in LTE transmission mode 2, LTE transmissionmode 4, or NR resource allocation mode 2, the UE may determine SLtransmission resources from among SL resources preconfigured orconfigured by the BS/network. For example, the preconfigured orconfigured SL resources may be a resource pool. For example, the UE mayautonomously select or schedule SL transmission resources. For example,the UE may select resources in a configured resource pool on its own andperform SL communication in the selected resources. For example, the UEmay select resources within a selection window on its own by a sensingand resource (re)selection procedure. For example, the sensing may beperformed on a subchannel basis. UE1, which has autonomously selectedresources in a resource pool, may transmit SCI to UE2 on a PSCCH andthen transmit data based on the SCI to UE2 on a PSSCH.

For example, a UE may help another UE with SL resource selection. Forexample, in NR resource allocation mode 2, the UE may be configured witha grant configured for SL transmission. For example, in NR resourceallocation mode 2, the UE may schedule SL transmission for another UE.For example, in NR resource allocation mode 2, the UE may reserve SLresources for blind retransmission.

For example, in NR resource allocation mode 2, UE1 may indicate thepriority of SL transmission to UE2 by SCI. For example, UE2 may decodethe SCI and perform sensing and/or resource (re)selection based on thepriority. For example, the resource (re)selection procedure may includeidentifying candidate resources in a resource selection window by UE2and selecting resources for (re)transmission from among the identifiedcandidate resources by UE2. For example, the resource selection windowmay be a time interval during which the UE selects resources for SLtransmission. For example, after UE2 triggers resource (re)selection,the resource selection window may start at T1≥0, and may be limited bythe remaining packet delay budget of UE2. For example, when specificresources are indicated by the SCI received from UE1 by the second UEand an L1 SL reference signal received power (RSRP) measurement of thespecific resources exceeds an SL RSRP threshold in the step ofidentifying candidate resources in the resource selection window by UE2,UE2 may not determine the specific resources as candidate resources. Forexample, the SL RSRP threshold may be determined based on the priorityof SL transmission indicated by the SCI received from UE1 by UE2 and thepriority of SL transmission in the resources selected by UE2.

For example, the L1 SL RSRP may be measured based on an SL demodulationreference signal (DMRS). For example, one or more PSSCH DMRS patternsmay be configured or preconfigured in the time domain for each resourcepool. For example, PDSCH DMRS configuration type 1 and/or type 2 may beidentical or similar to a PSSCH DMRS pattern in the frequency domain.For example, an accurate DMRS pattern may be indicated by the SCI. Forexample, in NR resource allocation mode 2, the transmitting UE mayselect a specific DMRS pattern from among DMRS patterns configured orpreconfigured for the resource pool.

For example, in NR resource allocation mode 2, the transmitting UE mayperform initial transmission of a TB without reservation based on thesensing and resource (re)selection procedure. For example, thetransmitting UE may reserve SL resources for initial transmission of asecond TB using SCI associated with a first TB based on the sensing andresource (re)selection procedure.

For example, in NR resource allocation mode 2, the UE may reserveresources for feedback-based PSSCH retransmission through signalingrelated to a previous transmission of the same TB. For example, themaximum number of SL resources reserved for one transmission, includinga current transmission, may be 2, 3 or 4. For example, the maximumnumber of SL resources may be the same regardless of whether HARQfeedback is enabled. For example, the maximum number of HARQ(re)transmissions for one TB may be limited by a configuration orpreconfiguration. For example, the maximum number of HARQ(re)transmissions may be up to 32. For example, if there is noconfiguration or preconfiguration, the maximum number of HARQ(re)transmissions may not be specified. For example, the configurationor preconfiguration may be for the transmitting UE. For example, in NRresource allocation mode 2, HARQ feedback for releasing resources whichare not used by the UE may be supported.

For example, in NR resource allocation mode 2, the UE may indicate oneor more subchannels and/or slots used by the UE to another UE by SCI.For example, the UE may indicate one or more subchannels and/or slotsreserved for PSSCH (re)transmission by the UE to another UE by SCI. Forexample, a minimum allocation unit of SL resources may be a slot. Forexample, the size of a subchannel may be configured or preconfigured forthe UE.

SCI will be described below.

While control information transmitted from a BS to a UE on a PDCCH isreferred to as DCI, control information transmitted from one UE toanother UE on a PSCCH may be referred to as SCI. For example, the UE mayknow the starting symbol of the PSCCH and/or the number of symbols inthe PSCCH before decoding the PSCCH. For example, the SCI may include SLscheduling information. For example, the UE may transmit at least oneSCI to another UE to schedule the PSSCH. For example, one or more SCIformats may be defined.

For example, the transmitting UE may transmit the SCI to the receivingUE on the PSCCH. The receiving UE may decode one SCI to receive thePSSCH from the transmitting UE.

For example, the transmitting UE may transmit two consecutive SCIs(e.g., 2-stage SCI) on the PSCCH and/or PSSCH to the receiving UE. Thereceiving UE may decode the two consecutive SCIs (e.g., 2-stage SCI) toreceive the PSSCH from the transmitting UE. For example, when SCIconfiguration fields are divided into two groups in consideration of a(relatively) large SCI payload size, SCI including a first SCIconfiguration field group is referred to as first SCI. SCI including asecond SCI configuration field group may be referred to as second SCI.For example, the transmitting UE may transmit the first SCI to thereceiving UE on the PSCCH. For example, the transmitting UE may transmitthe second SCI to the receiving UE on the PSCCH and/or PSSCH. Forexample, the second SCI may be transmitted to the receiving UE on an(independent) PSCCH or on a PSSCH in which the second SCI is piggybackedto data. For example, the two consecutive SCIs may be applied todifferent transmissions (e.g., unicast, broadcast, or groupcast).

For example, the transmitting UE may transmit all or part of thefollowing information to the receiving UE by SCI. For example, thetransmitting UE may transmit all or part of the following information tothe receiving UE by first SCI and/or second SCI.

-   -   PSSCH-related and/or PSCCH-related resource allocation        information, for example, the positions/number of time/frequency        resources, resource reservation information (e.g. a        periodicity), and/or    -   an SL channel state information (CSI) report request indicator        or SL (L1) RSRP (and/or SL (L1) reference signal received        quality (RSRQ) and/or SL (L1) received signal strength indicator        (RSSI)) report request indicator, and/or    -   an SL CSI transmission indicator (on PSSCH) (or SL (L1) RSRP        (and/or SL (L1) RSRQ and/or SL (L1) RSSI) information        transmission indicator), and/or    -   MCS information, and/or    -   transmission power information, and/or    -   L1 destination ID information and/or L1 source ID information,        and/or    -   SL HARQ process ID information, and/or    -   new data indicator (NDI) information, and/or    -   redundancy version (RV) information, and/or    -   QoS information (related to transmission traffic/packet), for        example, priority information, and/or    -   An SL CSI-RS transmission indicator or information about the        number of SL CSI-RS antenna ports (to be transmitted);    -   Location information about a transmitting UE or location (or        distance area) information about a target receiving UE        (requested to transmit an SL HARQ feedback), and/or    -   RS (e.g., DMRS or the like) information related to decoding        and/or channel estimation of data transmitted on a PSSCH, for        example, information related to a pattern of (time-frequency)        mapping resources of the DMRS, rank information, and antenna        port index information.

For example, the first SCI may include information related to channelsensing. For example, the receiving UE may decode the second SCI usingthe PSSCH DMRS. A polar code used for the PDCCH may be applied to thesecond SCI. For example, the payload size of the first SCI may be equalfor unicast, groupcast and broadcast in a resource pool. After decodingthe first SCI, the receiving UE does not need to perform blind decodingon the second SCI. For example, the first SCI may include schedulinginformation about the second SCI.

In various embodiments of the present disclosure, since the transmittingUE may transmit at least one of the SCI, the first SCI, or the secondSCI to the receiving UE on the PSCCH, the PSCCH may be replaced with atleast one of the SCI, the first SCI, or the second SC. Additionally oralternatively, for example, the SCI may be replaced with at least one ofthe PSCCH, the first SCI, or the second SCI. Additionally oralternatively, for example, since the transmitting UE may transmit thesecond SCI to the receiving UE on the PSSCH, the PSSCH may be replacedwith the second SCI.

FIG. 15 illustrates three cast types according to an embodiment of thepresent disclosure.

Specifically, FIG. 15(a) illustrates broadcast-type SL communication,FIG. 15(b) illustrates unicast-type SL communication, and FIG. 15(c)illustrates groupcast-type SL communication. In unicast-type SLcommunication, a UE may perform one-to-one communication with anotherUE. In groupcast-type SL communication, the UE may perform SLcommunication with one or more UEs of a group to which the UE belongs.In various embodiments of the present disclosure, SL groupcastcommunication may be replaced with SL multicast communication, SLone-to-many communication, and so on.

In-device coexistence of LTE SL and NR SL will be described below.

FIG. 16 illustrates a UE including an LTE module and an NR moduleaccording to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

Referring to FIG. 16, the UE may include a module related to LTE SLtransmission and a module related to NR SL transmission. A packetrelated to LTE SL transmission generated in a higher layer may bedelivered to the LTE module. A packet related to NR SL transmissiongenerated in a higher layer may be delivered to the NR module. Forexample, the LTE module and the NR module may be related to a commonhigher layer (e.g., application layer). Alternatively, for example, theLTE module and the NR module may be related to different higher layers(e.g., a higher layer related to the LTE module and a higher layerrelated to the NR module). Each packet may be related to a specificpriority. In this case, the LTE module may have no knowledge of thepriority of a packet related to NR SL transmission, and the NR modulemay have no knowledge of the priority of a packet related to LTE SLtransmission. For comparison between the priorities, the priority of thepacket related to LTE SL transmission and the priority of the packetrelated to NR SL transmission may be exchanged between the LTE moduleand the NR module. Accordingly, the LTE module and the NR module mayknow the priority of the packet related to LTE SL transmission and thepriority of the packet related to NR SL transmission. When the LTE SLtransmission and the NR SL transmission overlap with each other, the UEmay compare the priority of the packet related to the LTE SLtransmission with the priority of the packet related to the NR SLtransmission, and thus perform only the SL transmission with the higherpriority. For example, an NR V2X priority field and a ProSe per-packetpriority (PPPP) may be directly compared with each other.

For example, Table 5 illustrates an example of the priorities ofservices related to LTE SL transmission and the priorities of servicesrelated to NR SL transmission. For the convenience of description, adescription will be given of PPPPs, but the priorities are not limitedto PPPPs. For example, priorities may be defined in various manners. Forexample, the same type of common priorities may be applied to NR-relatedservices and LTE-related services.

TABLE 5 LTE-related service PPPP value NR-related service PPPP value LTESL service A 1 NR SL service D 1 LTE SL service B 2 NR SL service E 2LTE SL service C 3 NR SL service F 3

For example, in the embodiment of Table 5, it is assumed that the UEdetermines to transmit LTE SL service A and NR SL service E, and atransmission for LTE SL service A and a transmission for NR SL service Eoverlap with each other. For example, the transmission for LTE SLservice A and the transmission for NR SL service E may overlap fully orpartially in the time domain. In this case, the UE may perform only theSL transmission with the higher priority, skipping the SL transmissionwith the lower priority. For example, the UE may transmit only LTE SLservice A on a first carrier and/or a first channel. On the other hand,the UE may not transmit NR SL service E on a second carrier and/or asecond channel.

Now, a description will be given of a CAM and a DENM will be described.

In V2V communication, a CAM of a periodic message type and a DENM of anevent-triggered message type may be transmitted. The CAM may includebasic vehicle information, such as dynamic state information about avehicle like a direction and a speed, vehicle static data likedimensions, exterior lighting conditions, route details, and so on. TheCAM may be 50 to 300 bytes long. The CAM is broadcast and has a latencyrequirement below 100 ms. The DENM may be a message generated in asudden situation such as a vehicle breakdown or accident. The DENM maybe shorter than 3000 bytes, and receivable at any vehicle within atransmission range. The DENM may have a higher priority than the CAM.

Carrier reselection will be described below.

In V2X or SL communication, the UE may perform carrier reselection basedon the channel busy ratios (CBRs) of configured carriers and/or the PPPPof a V2X message to be transmitted. For example, carrier reselection maybe performed in the MAC layer of the UE. In various embodiments of thepresent disclosure, PPPP and ProSe per packet reliability (PPPR) may beinterchangeably used with each other. For example, as a PPPP value issmaller, this may mean a higher priority, and as the PPPP value islarger, this may mean a lower priority. For example, as a PPPR value issmaller, this may mean higher reliability, and as the PPPR value islarger, this may mean lower reliability. For example, a PPPP valuerelated to a service, packet or message with a higher priority may beless than a PPPP value related to a service, packet or message with alower priority. For example, a PPPR value related to a service, packetor message with higher reliability may be less than a PPPR value relatedto a service, packet or message with lower reliability.

A CBR may refer to the fraction of sub-channels in a resource pool, ofwhich the sidelink-received signal strength indicator (S-RSSI) measuredby the UE is sensed as exceeding a predetermined threshold. There may bea PPPP related to each logical channel, and the configuration of thePPPP value should reflect latency requirements of both the UE and theBS. During carrier reselection, the UE may select one or more ofcandidate carriers in an ascending order from the lowest CBR.

Now, RRC connection establishment between UEs will be described.

For V2X or SL communication, a transmitting UE may need to establish a(PC5) RRC connection with a receiving UE. For example, a UE may obtain aV2X-specific SIB. For a UE with data to be transmitted, which isconfigured with V2X or SL transmission by a higher layer, when at leasta frequency configured for transmission of the UE for SL communicationis included in the V2X-specific SIB, the UE may establish an RRCconnection with another UE without including a transmission resourcepool for the frequency. For example, once the RRC connection isestablished between the transmitting UE and the receiving UE, thetransmitting UE may perform unicast communication with the receiving UEvia the established RRC connection.

When the RRC connection is established between the UEs, the transmittingUE may transmit an RRC message to the receiving UE.

FIG. 17 illustrates a procedure of transmitting an RRC message accordingto an embodiment of the present disclosure.

Referring to FIG. 17, an RRC message generated by a transmitting UE maybe delivered to the PHY layer via the PDCP layer, the RLC layer, and theMAC layer. The RRC message may be transmitted through a signaling radiobearer (SRB). The PHY layer of the transmitting UE may subject thereceived information to encoding, modulation, and antenna/resourcemapping, and the transmitting UE may transmit the information to areceiving UE.

The receiving UE may subject the received information toantenna/resource demapping, demodulation, and decoding. The informationmay be delivered to the RRC layer via the MAC layer, the RLC layer, andthe PDCP layer. Therefore, the receiving UE may receive the RRC messagegenerated by the transmitting UE.

V2X or SL communication may be supported for a UE in RRC_CONNECTED mode,a UE in RRC_IDLE mode, and a UE in (NR) RRC_INACTIVE mode. That is, theUE in the RRC_CONNECTED mode, the UE in the RRC_IDLE mode and the UE inthe (NR) RRC_INACTIVE mode may perform V2X or SL communication. The UEin the RRC_INACTIVE mode or the UE in the RRC_IDLE mode may perform V2Xor SL communication by using a cell-specific configuration included in aV2X-specific SIB.

The RRC may be used to exchange at least a UE capability and an AS layerconfiguration. For example, UE1 may transmit its UE capability and ASlayer configuration to UE2, and receive a UE capability and an AS layerconfiguration of UE2 from UE2. For UE capability delivery, aninformation flow may be triggered during or after PC5-S signaling fordirect link setup.

FIG. 18 illustrates uni-directional UE capability delivery according toan embodiment of the present disclosure.

FIG. 19 illustrates bi-directional UE capability delivery according toan embodiment of the present disclosure.

For an AS layer configuration, an information flow may be triggeredduring or after PC5-S signaling for direct link setup.

FIG. 20 illustrates a bi-directional AS layer configuration according toan embodiment of the present disclosure.

In groupcast, one-to-many PC5-RRC connection establishment may not beneeded between group members.

SL radio link monitoring (SLM) will be described below.

For unicast AS-level link management, SL RLM and/or radio link failure(RLF) declaration may be supported. In RLC acknowledged mode (SL AM) ofSL unicast, the RLF declaration may be triggered by an indication fromthe RLC indicating that a maximum number of retransmissions has beenreached. An AS-level link status (e.g., failure) may need to be known toa higher layer. Unlike the RLM procedure for unicast, agroupcast-related RLM design may not be considered. The RLM and/or RLFdeclaration may not be needed between group members for groupcast.

For example, the transmitting UE may transmit an RS to the receiving UE,and the receiving UE may perform SL RLM using the RS. For example, thereceiving UE may declare an SL RLF using the RS. For example, the RS maybe referred to as an SL RS.

SL measurement and reporting will be described below.

For the purpose of QoS prediction, initial transmission parametersetting, link adaptation, link management, admission control, and so on,SL measurement and reporting (e.g., an RSRP or an RSRQ) between UEs maybe considered in SL. For example, the receiving UE may receive an RSfrom the transmitting UE and measure the channel state of thetransmitting UE based on the RS. Further, the receiving UE may reportCSI to the transmitting UE. SL-related measurement and reporting mayinclude measurement and reporting of a CBR and reporting of locationinformation. Examples of CSI for V2X include a channel quality indicator(CQI), a precoding matrix index (PMI), a rank indicator (RI), an RSRP,an RSRQ, a path gain/pathloss, an SRS resource indicator (SRI), a CSI-RSresource indicator (CRI), an interference condition, a vehicle motion,and the like. For unicast communication, a CQI, an RI and a PMI or apart of them may be supported in a non-subband-based aperiodic CSIreport based on the assumption of four or fewer antenna ports. The CSIprocedure may not depend on a standalone RS. CSI reporting may beactivated and deactivated depending on a configuration.

For example, the transmitting UE may transmit a channel stateinformation-reference signal (CSI-RS) to the receiving UE, and thereceiving UE may measure a CQI or RI using the CSI-RS. For example, theCSI-RS may be referred to as an SL CSI-RS. For example, the CSI-RS maybe confined to PSSCH transmission. For example, the transmitting UE maytransmit the CSI-RS in PSSCH resources to the receiving UE.

PHY-layer processing will be described below.

According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a data unit may besubjected to PHY-layer processing at a transmitting side before beingtransmitted over an air interface. According to an embodiment of thepresent disclosure, a radio signal carrying a data unit may be subjectedto PHY-layer processing at a receiving side.

FIG. 21 illustrates PHY-layer processing at a transmitting sideaccording to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

Table 6 may illustrate a mapping relationship between UL transportchannels and physical channels, and Table 7 may illustrate a mappingrelationship between UL control channel information and physicalchannels.

TABLE 6 Transport channel Physical channel UL-SCH (UL-Shared Channel)PUSCH (Physical UL Shared Channel) RACH (Random Access Channel) PRACH(Physical Random Access Channel)

TABLE 7 Control information Physical channel UCI (UL ControlInformation) PUCCH (Physical UL Control Channel) PUSCH (Physical ULShared Channel)

Table 8 may illustrate a mapping relationship between DL transportchannels and physical channels, and Table 9 may illustrate a mappingrelationship between DL control channel information and physicalchannels.

TABLE 8 Transport channel Physical channel DL-SCH (DL-Shared Channel)PDSCH (Physical DL Shared Channel) BCH (Broadcast Channel) PBCH(Physical Broadcast Channel) PCH (Paging Channel) PDSCH (Physical DLShared Channel)

TABLE 9 Control information Physical channel DCI (DL ControlInformation) PDCCH (Physical DL Control Channel)

Table 10 may illustrate a mapping relationship between SL transportchannels and physical channels, and Table 11 may illustrate a mappingrelationship between SL control channel information and physicalchannels.

TABLE 10 Transport channel Physical channel SL-SCH (Sidelink-SharedChannel) PSSCH (Physical Sidelink Shared Channel) SL-BCH(Sidelink-Broadcast Channel) PSBCH (Physical Sidelink Broadcast Channel)

TABLE 11 Control information Physical Channel 1st-stage SCI PSCCH2nd-stage SCI PSSCH SFCI PSFCH

Referring to FIG. 21, a transmitting side may encode a TB in step S100.The PHY layer may encode data and a control stream from the MAC layer toprovide transport and control services via a radio transmission link inthe PHY layer. For example, a TB from the MAC layer may be encoded to acodeword at the transmitting side. A channel coding scheme may be acombination of error detection, error correction, rate matching,interleaving, and control information or a transport channel demappedfrom a physical channel. Alternatively, a channel coding scheme may be acombination of error detection, error correcting, rate matching,interleaving, and control information or a transport channel mapped to aphysical channel.

In the NR system, the following channel coding schemes may be used fordifferent types of transport channels and different types of controlinformation. For example, channel coding schemes for respectivetransport channel types may be listed as in Table 12. For example,channel coding schemes for respective control information types may belisted as in Table 13.

TABLE 12 Transport channel Channel coding scheme UL-SCH LDPC(Low DensityParity Check) DL-SCH SL-SCH PCH BCH Polar code SL-BCH

TABLE 13 Control information Channel coding scheme DCI Polar code SCIUCI Block code, Polar code

For example, a polar code may be applied to the PSCCH. For example, anLDPC code may be applied to a TB transmitted on the PSSCH.

For transmission of a TB (e.g., a MAC PDU), the transmitting side mayattach a CRC sequence to the TB. Thus, the transmitting side may provideerror detection for the receiving side. In SL communication, thetransmitting side may be a transmitting UE, and the receiving side maybe a receiving UE. In the NR system, a communication device may use anLDPC code to encode/decode a UL-SCH and a DL-SCH. The NR system maysupport two LDPC base graphs (i.e., two LDPC base metrics). The two LDPCbase graphs may be LDPC base graph 1 optimized for a small TB and LDPCbase graph 2 optimized for a large TB. The transmitting side may selectLDPC base graph 1 or LDPC base graph 2 based on the size and coding rateR of a TB. The coding rate may be indicated by an MCS index, I_MCS. TheMCS index may be dynamically provided to the UE by a PDCCH thatschedules a PUSCH or PDSCH. Alternatively, the MCS index may bedynamically provided to the UE by a PDCCH that (re)initializes oractivates UL configured grant type 2 or DL semi-persistent scheduling(SPS). The MCS index may be provided to the UE by RRC signaling relatedto UL configured grant type 1. When the TB attached with the CRC islarger than a maximum code block (CB) size for the selected LDPC basegraph, the transmitting side may divide the TB attached with the CRCinto a plurality of CBs. The transmitting side may further attach anadditional CRC sequence to each CB. The maximum code block sizes forLDPC base graph 1 and LDPC base graph 2 may be 8448 bits and 3480 bits,respectively. When the TB attached with the CRC is not larger than themaximum CB size for the selected LDPC base graph, the transmitting sidemay encode the TB attached with the CRC to the selected LDPC base graph.The transmitting side may encode each CB of the TB to the selected LDPCbasic graph. The LDPC CBs may be rate-matched individually. The CBs maybe concatenated to generate a codeword for transmission on a PDSCH or aPUSCH. Up to two codewords (i.e., up to two TBs) may be transmittedsimultaneously on the PDSCH. The PUSCH may be used for transmission ofUL-SCH data and layer-1 and/or layer-2 control information. While notshown in FIG. 21, layer-1 and/or layer-2 control information may bemultiplexed with a codeword for UL-SCH data.

In steps S101 and S102, the transmitting side may scramble and modulatethe codeword. The bits of the codeword may be scrambled and modulated toproduce a block of complex-valued modulation symbols.

In step S103, the transmitting side may perform layer mapping. Thecomplexed-value modulation symbols of the codeword may be mapped to oneor more MIMO layers. The codeword may be mapped to up to four layers.The PDSCH may carry two codewords, thus supporting up to 8-layertransmission. The PUSCH may support a single codeword, thus supportingup to 4-layer transmission.

In step S104, the transmitting side may perform precoding transform. ADL transmission waveform may be general OFDM using a CP. For DL,transform precoding (i.e., discrete Fourier transform (DFT)) may not beapplied.

A UL transmission waveform may be conventional OFDM using a CP having atransform precoding function that performs DFT spreading which may bedisabled or enabled. In the NR system, transform precoding, if enabled,may be selectively applied to UL. Transform precoding may be to spreadUL data in a special way to reduce the PAPR of the waveform. Transformprecoding may be a kind of DFT. That is, the NR system may support twooptions for the UL waveform. One of the two options may be CP-OFDM (sameas DL waveform) and the other may be DFT-s-OFDM. Whether the UE shoulduse CP-OFDM or DFT-s-OFDM may be determined by the BS through an RRCparameter.

In step S105, the transmitting side may perform subcarrier mapping. Alayer may be mapped to an antenna port. In DL, transparent(non-codebook-based) mapping may be supported for layer-to-antenna portmapping, and how beamforming or MIMO precoding is performed may betransparent to the UE. In UL, both non-codebook-based mapping andcodebook-based mapping may be supported for layer-to-antenna portmapping.

For each antenna port (i.e. layer) used for transmission of a physicalchannel (e.g. PDSCH, PUSCH, or PSSCH), the transmitting side may mapcomplexed-value modulation symbols to subcarriers in an RB allocated tothe physical channel.

In step S106, the transmitting side may perform OFDM modulation. Acommunication device of the transmitting side may add a CP and performinverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT), thereby generating atime-continuous OFDM baseband signal on an antenna port p and asubcarrier spacing (SPS) configuration u for an OFDM symbol 1 within aTTI for the physical channel. For example, for each OFDM symbol, thecommunication device of the transmitting side may perform IFFT on acomplex-valued modulation symbol mapped to an RB of the correspondingOFDM symbol. The communication device of the transmitting side may add aCP to the IFFT signal to generate an OFDM baseband signal.

In step S107, the transmitting side may perform up-conversion. Thecommunication device of the transmitting side may upconvert the OFDMbaseband signal, the SCS configuration u, and the OFDM symbol 1 for theantenna port p to a carrier frequency f0 of a cell to which the physicalchannel is allocated.

Processors 102 and 202 of FIG. 38 may be configured to perform encoding,scrambling, modulation, layer mapping, precoding transformation (forUL), subcarrier mapping, and OFDM modulation.

FIG. 22 illustrates PHY-layer processing at a receiving side accordingto an embodiment of the present disclosure.

The PHY-layer processing of the receiving side may be basically thereverse processing of the PHY-layer processing of a transmitting side.

In step S110, the receiving side may perform frequency downconversion. Acommunication device of the receiving side may receive a radio frequency(RF) signal in a carrier frequency through an antenna. A transceiver 106or 206 that receives the RF signal in the carrier frequency maydownconvert the carrier frequency of the RF signal to a baseband toobtain an OFDM baseband signal.

In step S111, the receiving side may perform OFDM demodulation. Thecommunication device of the receiving side may acquire complex-valuedmodulation symbols by CP detachment and fast Fourier transform (FFT).For example, for each OFDM symbol, the communication device of thereceiving side may remove a CP from the OFDM baseband signal. Thecommunication device of the receiving side may then perform FFT on theCP-free OFDM baseband signal to obtain complexed-value modulationsymbols for an antenna port p, an SCS u, and an OFDM symbol 1.

In step S112, the receiving side may perform subcarrier demapping.Subcarrier demapping may be performed on the complexed-value modulationsymbols to obtain complexed-value modulation symbols of the physicalchannel. For example, the processor of a UE may obtain complexed-valuemodulation symbols mapped to subcarriers of a PDSCH amongcomplexed-value modulation symbols received in a BWP.

In step S113, the receiving side may perform transform de-precoding.When transform precoding is enabled for a UL physical channel, transformde-precoding (e.g., inverse discrete Fourier transform (IDFT)) may beperformed on complexed-value modulation symbols of the UL physicalchannel. Transform de-precoding may not be performed for a DL physicalchannel and a UL physical channel for which transform precoding isdisabled.

In step S114, the receiving side may perform layer demapping. Thecomplexed-value modulation symbols may be demapped into one or twocodewords.

In steps S115 and S116, the receiving side may perform demodulation anddescrambling. The complexed-value modulation symbols of the codewordsmay be demodulated and descrambled into bits of the codewords.

In step S117, the receiving side may perform decoding. The codewords maybe decoded into TBs. For a UL-SCH and a DL-SCH, LDPC base graph 1 orLDPC base graph 2 may be selected based on the size and coding rate R ofa TB. A codeword may include one or more CBs. Each coded block may bedecoded into a CB to which a CRC has been attached or a TB to which aCRC has been attached, by the selected LDPC base graph. When CBsegmentation has been performed for the TB attached with the CRC at thetransmitting side, a CRC sequence may be removed from each of the CBseach attached with a CRC, thus obtaining CBs. The CBs may beconcatenated to a TB attached with a CRC. A TB CRC sequence may beremoved from the TB attached with the CRC, thereby obtaining the TB. TheTB may be delivered to the MAC layer.

Each of processors 102 and 202 of FIG. 38 may be configured to performOFDM demodulation, subcarrier demapping, layer demapping, demodulation,descrambling, and decoding.

In the above-described PHY-layer processing on thetransmitting/receiving side, time and frequency resources (e.g., OFDMsymbol, subcarrier, and carrier frequency) related to subcarriermapping, OFDM modulation, and frequency upconversion/downconversion maybe determined based on a resource allocation (e.g., an UL grant or a DLassignment).

Now, an HARQ procedure will be described.

An error compensation technique for ensuring communication reliabilitymay include a forward error correction (FEC) scheme and an automaticrepeat request (ARQ) scheme. In the FEC scheme, an error in a receivermay be corrected by adding an extra error correction code to informationbits. Although the FEC scheme offers the benefits of a short time delayand no need for separately exchanging information between a transmitterand a receiver, the FEC scheme has decreased system efficiency in a goodchannel environment. The ARQ scheme may improve the transmissionreliability. Despite the advantage, the ARQ scheme incurs a time delayand has decreased system efficiency in a poor channel environment.

HARQ is a combination of FEC and ARQ. In HARQ, it is determined whetherdata received in the PHY layer includes an error that is not decodable,and upon generation of an error, a retransmission is requested tothereby improve performance.

In SL unicast and groupcast, HARQ feedback and HARQ combining in the PHYlayer may be supported. For example, when the receiving UE operates inresource allocation mode 1 or 2, the receiving UE may receive a PSSCHfrom the transmitting UE, and transmit an HARQ feedback for the PSSCH ina sidelink feedback control information (SFCI) format on a physicalsidelink feedback channel (PSFCH).

For example, SL HARQ feedback may be enabled for unicast. In this case,in a non-code block group (non-CBG) operation, when the receiving UEdecodes a PSCCH directed to it and succeeds in decoding an RB related tothe PSCCH, the receiving UE may generate an HARQ-ACK and transmit theHARQ-ACK to the transmitting UE. On the other hand, after the receivingUE decodes the PSCCH directed to it and fails in decoding the TB relatedto the PSCCH, the receiving UE may generate an HARQ-NACK and transmitthe HARQ-NACK to the transmitting UE.

For example, SL HARQ feedback may be enabled for groupcast. For example,in a non-CBG operation, two HARQ feedback options may be supported forgroupcast.

(1) Groupcast option 1: When the receiving UE decodes a PSCCH directedto it and then fails to decode a TB related to the PSCCH, the receivingUE transmits an HARQ-NACK on a PSFCH to the transmitting UE. On thecontrary, when the receiving UE decodes the PSCCH directed to it andthen succeeds in decoding the TB related to the PSCCH, the receiving UEmay not transmit an HARQ-ACK to the transmitting UE.

(2) Groupcast option 2: When the receiving UE decodes a PSCCH directedto it and then fails to decode a TB related to the PSCCH, the receivingUE transmits an HARQ-NACK on a PSFCH to the transmitting UE. On thecontrary, when the receiving UE decodes the PSCCH directed to it andthen succeeds in decoding the TB related to the PSCCH, the receiving UEmay transmit an HARQ-ACK to the transmitting UE on the PSFCH.

For example, when groupcast option 1 is used for SL HARQ feedback, allUEs performing groupcast communication may share PSFCH resources. Forexample, UEs belonging to the same group may transmit HARQ feedbacks inthe same PSFCH resources.

For example, when groupcast option 2 is used for SL HARQ feedback, eachUE performing groupcast communication may use different PSFCH resourcesfor HARQ feedback transmission. For example, UEs belonging to the samegroup may transmit HARQ feedbacks in different PSFCH resources.

For example, when SL HARQ feedback is enabled for groupcast, thereceiving UE may determine whether to transmit an HARQ feedback to thetransmitting UE based on a transmission-reception (TX-RX) distanceand/or an RSRP.

For example, in the case of TX-RX distance-based HARQ feedback ingroupcast option 1, when the TX-RX distance is less than or equal to acommunication range requirement, the receiving UE may transmit an HARQfeedback for the PSSCH to the transmitting UE. On the other hand, whenthe TX-RX distance is larger than the communication range requirement,the receiving UE may not transmit the HARQ feedback for the PSSCH to thetransmitting UE. For example, the transmitting UE may inform thereceiving UE of the location of the transmitting UE by SCI related tothe PSSCH. For example, the SCI related to the PSSCH may be second SCI.For example, the receiving UE may estimate or obtain the TX-RX distancebased on the locations of the receiving UE and the transmitting UE. Forexample, the receiving UE may decode the SCI related to the PSSCH, so asto know the communication range requirement used for the PSSCH.

For example, in resource allocation mode 1, a time between the PSFCH andthe PSSCH may be configured or preconfigured. In unicast and groupcast,when a retransmission is needed on SL, this may be indicated to the BSby an in-coverage UE using a PUCCH. The transmitting UE may transmit anindication to its serving BS in the form of a scheduling request(SR)/buffer status report (BSR) instead of an HARQ ACK/NACK. Further,even though the BS fails to receive the indication, the BS may scheduleSL retransmission resources for the UE. For example, in resourceallocation mode 2, the time between the PSFCH and the PSSCH may beconfigured or preconfigured.

For example, from the viewpoint of transmission of a UE on a carrier,time division multiplexing (TDM) between a PSCCH/PSSCH and a PSFCH maybe allowed for a PSFCH format for the SL in a slot. For example, asequence-based PSFCH format with one symbol may be supported. The onesymbol may not be an AGC period. For example, the sequence-based PSFCHformat may be applied to unicast and groupcast.

For example, PSFCH resources may be preconfigured or periodicallyconfigured to span N slot periods in slots related to a resource pool.For example, N may be set to one or more values equal to or largerthan 1. For example, N may be 1, 2 or 4. For example, an HARQ feedbackfor a transmission in a specific resource pool may be transmitted onlyon a PSFCH in the specific resource pool.

For example, when the transmitting UE transmits the PSSCH in slot # X toslot # N to the receiving UE, the receiving UE may transmit an HARQfeedback for the PSSCH in slot #(N+A) to the transmitting UE. Forexample, slot #(N+A) may include PSFCH resources. For example, A may bea smallest integer greater than or equal to K. For example, K may be thenumber of logical slots. In this case, K may be the number of slots inthe resource pool. Alternatively, for example, K may be the number ofphysical slots. In this case, K may be the number of slots inside andoutside the resource pool.

For example, when the receiving UE transmits an HARQ feedback in PSFCHresources in response to one PSSCH transmitted by the transmitting UE,the receiving UE may determine the frequency area and/or code area ofthe PSFCH resources based on an implicit mechanism in the configuredresource pool. For example, the receiving UE may determine the frequencyarea and/or code area of the PSFCH resources based on at least one of aslot index related to the PSCCH/PSSCH/PSFCH, a subchannel related to thePSCCH/PSSCH, or an ID identifying each receiving UE in a group for HARQfeedback based on groupcast option 2. Additionally or alternatively, forexample, the receiving UE may determine the frequency area and/or codearea of the PSFCH resources based on at least one of an SL RSRP, asignal-to-interference and noise ratio (SINR), an L1 source ID, orlocation information.

For example, when an HARQ feedback transmission of the UE on the PSFCHoverlaps with an HARQ feedback reception of the UE on the PSFCH, the UEmay select either the HARQ feedback transmission on the PSFCH or theHARQ feedback reception on the PSFCH based on a priority rule. Forexample, the priority rule may be based on a minimum priority indicationof the related PSCCH/PSSCH.

For example, when HARQ feedback transmissions of the UE for a pluralityof UEs overlap with each other on the PSFCH, the UE may select aspecific HARQ feedback transmission based on the priority rule. Forexample, the priority rule may be based on the minimum priorityindication of the related PSCCH/PSSCH.

Now, a description will be given of positioning.

FIG. 23 illustrates an exemplary architecture of a 5G system capable ofpositioning a UE connected to an NG-RAN or an E-UTRAN according to anembodiment of the present disclosure.

Referring to FIG. 23, an AMF may receive a request for a locationservice related to a specific target UE from another entity such as agateway mobile location center (GMLC) or may autonomously determine toinitiate the location service on behalf of the specific target UE. TheAMF may then transmit a location service request to a locationmanagement function (LMF). Upon receipt of the location service request,the LMF may process the location service request and return a processingresult including information about an estimated location of the UE tothe AMF. On the other hand, when the location service request isreceived from another entity such as the GMLC, the AMF may deliver theprocessing result received from the LMF to the other entity.

A new generation evolved-NB (ng-eNB) and a gNB, which are networkelements of an NG-RAN capable of providing measurement results forpositioning, may measure radio signals for the target UE and transmitresult values to the LMF. The ng-eNB may also control some transmissionpoints (TPs) such as remote radio heads or positioning reference signal(PRS)-dedicated TPs supporting a PRS-based beacon system for an E-UTRA.

The LMF is connected to an enhanced serving mobile location center(E-SMLC), and the E-SMLC may enable the LMF to access an E-UTRAN. Forexample, the E-SMLC may enable the LMF to support observed timedifference of arrival (OTDOA), which is one of positioning methods inthe E-UTRAN, by using DL measurements obtained by the target UE throughsignals transmitted by the eNB and/or the PRS-dedicated TPs in theE-UTRAN.

The LMF may be connected to an SUPL location platform (SLP). The LMF maysupport and manage different location determination services for targetUEs. The LMF may interact with the serving ng-eNB or serving gNB of atarget UE to obtain a location measurement of the UE. For positioningthe target UE, the LMF may determine a positioning method based on alocation service (LCS) client type, a QoS requirement, UE positioningcapabilities, gNB positioning capabilities, and ng-eNB positioningcapabilities, and apply the positioning method to the serving gNB and/orthe serving ng-eNB. The LMF may determine additional information such asa location estimate for the target UE and the accuracy of the positionestimation and a speed. The SLP is a secure user plane location (SUPL)entity responsible for positioning through the user plane.

The UE may measure a DL signal through sources such as the NG-RAN andE-UTRAN, different global navigation satellite systems (GNSSes), aterrestrial beacon system (TBS), a wireless local area network (WLAN)access point, a Bluetooth beacon, and a UE barometric pressure sensor.The UE may include an LCS application and access the LCS applicationthrough communication with a network to which the UE is connected orthrough another application included in the UE. The LCS application mayinclude a measurement and calculation function required to determine thelocation of the UE. For example, the UE may include an independentpositioning function such as a global positioning system (GPS) andreport the location of the UE independently of an NG-RAN transmission.The independently obtained positioning information may be utilized asauxiliary information of positioning information obtained from thenetwork.

FIG. 24 illustrates exemplary implementation of a network forpositioning a UE according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

Upon receipt of a location service request when the UE is in aconnection management-IDLE (CM-IDLE) state, the AMF may establish asignaling connection with the UE and request a network trigger serviceto assign a specific serving gNB or ng-eNB. This operation is not shownin FIG. 24. That is, FIG. 24 may be based on the assumption that the UEis in connected mode. However, the signaling connection may be releasedby the NG-RAN due to signaling and data deactivation during positioning.

Referring to FIG. 24, a network operation for positioning a UE will bedescribed in detail. In step 1 a, a 5GC entity such as a GMLC mayrequest a location service for positioning a target UE to a serving AMF.However, even though the GMLC does not request the location service, theserving AMF may determine that the location service for positioning thetarget UE is required in step 1 b. For example, for positioning the UEfor an emergency call, the serving AMF may determine to perform thelocation service directly.

The AMF may then transmit a location service request to an LMF in step2, and the LMF may start location procedures with the serving-eNB andthe serving gNB to obtain positioning data or positioning assistancedata in step 3 a. Additionally, the LMF may initiate a locationprocedure for DL positioning with the UE in step 3 b. For example, theLMF may transmit positioning assistance data (assistance data defined in3GPP TS 36.355) to the UE, or obtain a location estimate or locationmeasurement. Although step 3 b may be additionally performed after step3 a, step 3 b may be performed instead of step 3 a.

In step 4, the LMF may provide a location service response to the AMF.The location service response may include information indicating whetherlocation estimation of the UE was successful and the location estimateof the UE. Then, when the procedure of FIG. 24 is initiated in step 1 a,the AMF may deliver the location service response to the 5GC entity suchas the GMLC. When the procedure of FIG. 24 is initiated in step 1 b, theAMF may use the location service response to provide the locationservice related to an emergency call or the like.

FIG. 25 illustrates exemplary protocol layers used to support LTEpositioning protocol (LPP) message transmission between an LMF and a UEaccording to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

An LPP PDU may be transmitted in a NAS PDU between the AMF and the UE.Referring to FIG. 25, the LPP may be terminated between a target device(e.g., a UE in the control plane or a SUPL enabled terminal (SET) in theuser plane) and a location server (e.g., an LMF in the control plane oran SLP in the user plane). An LPP message may be transmitted in atransparent PDU over an intermediate network interface by using anappropriate protocol such as the NG application protocol (NGAP) via anNG-control plane (NG-C) interface or a NAS/RRC via LTE-Uu and NR-Uuinterfaces. The LPP allows positioning for NR and LTE in variouspositioning methods.

For example, the target device and the location server may exchangecapability information with each other, positioning assistance dataand/or location information over the LPP. Further, error information maybe exchanged and/or discontinuation of an LPP procedure may beindicated, by an LPP message.

FIG. 26 illustrates exemplary protocol layers used to support NRpositioning protocol A (NRPPa) PDU transmission between an LMF and anNG-RAN node according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

NRPPa may be used for information exchange between the NG-RAN node andthe LMF. Specifically, NRPPa enables exchange of an enhanced-cell ID(E-CID) for a measurement transmitted from the ng-eNB to the LMF, datato support OTDOA positioning, and a Cell-ID and Cell location ID for NRCell ID positioning. Even without information about a related NRPPatransaction, the AMF may route NRPPa PDUs based on the routing ID of therelated LMF via an NG-C interface.

Procedures of the NRPPa protocol for positioning and data collection maybe divided into two types. One of the two types is a UE-associatedprocedure for delivering information (e.g., positioning information)about a specific UE, and the other type is a non-UE-associated procedurefor delivering information (e.g., gNB/ng-eNB/TP timing information)applicable to an NG-RAN node and related TPs. The two types ofprocedures may be supported independently or simultaneously.

Positioning methods supported by the NG-RAN include GNSS, OTDOA, E-CID,barometric pressure sensor positioning, WLAN positioning, Bluetoothpositioning, terrestrial beacon system (TBS), and UL time difference ofarrival (UTDOA). Although a UE may be positioned in any of the abovepositioning methods, two or more positioning methods may be used toposition the UE.

(1) Observed Time Difference of Arrival (OTDOA)

FIG. 27 is a diagram illustrating an OTDOA positioning method accordingto an embodiment of the present disclosure.

In the OTDOA positioning method, a UE utilizes measurement timings of DLsignals received from multiple TPs including an eNB, ng-eNB, and aPRS-dedicated TP. The UE measures the timings of the received DL signalsusing positioning assistance data received from a location server. Thelocation of the UE may be determined based on the measurement resultsand the geographical coordinates of neighboring TPs.

A UE connected to a gNB may request a measurement gap for OTDOAmeasurement from a TP. When the UE fails to identify a single frequencynetwork (SFN) for at least one TP in OTDOA assistance data, the UE mayuse an autonomous gap to acquire the SFN of an OTDOA reference cellbefore requesting a measurement gap in which a reference signal timedifference (RSTD) is measured.

An RSTD may be defined based on a smallest relative time differencebetween the boundaries of two subframes received from a reference celland a measurement cell. That is, the RSTD may be calculated as arelative timing difference between a time when the UE receives the startof a subframe from the reference cell and a time when the UE receivesthe start of a subframe from the measurement cell which is closest tothe subframe received from the reference cell. The reference cell may beselected by the UE.

For accurate OTDOA measurement, it is necessary to measure the time ofarrivals (TOAs) of signals received from three or more geographicallydistributed TPs or BSs. For example, TOAs for TP 1, TP 2, and TP 3 maybe measured, an RSTD for TP 1-TP 2, an RSTD for TP 2-TP 3, and an RSTDfor TP 3-TP 1 may be calculated based on the three TOAs, geometrichyperbolas may be determined based on the calculated RSTDs, and a pointwhere these hyperbolas intersect may be estimated as the location of theUE. Accuracy and/or uncertainty may be involved in each TOA measurement,and thus the estimated UE location may be known as a specific rangeaccording to the measurement uncertainty.

For example, an RSTD for two TPs may be calculated by Equation 1.

$\begin{matrix}{{RSTDi},{1 = {\frac{\sqrt{\left( {x_{t} - x_{i}} \right)^{2} + \left( {y_{t} - y_{i}} \right)^{2}}}{c} - \frac{\sqrt{\left( {x_{t} - x_{1}} \right)^{2} + \left( {y_{t} - y_{1}} \right)^{2}}}{c} + \left( {T_{i} - T_{1}} \right) + \left( {n_{i} - n_{1}} \right)}}} & {{Equation}\mspace{14mu} 1}\end{matrix}$

where c is the speed of light, {xt, yt} is the (unknown) coordinates ofthe target UE, {xi, yi} is the coordinates of a (known) TP, and {x1, y1}is the coordinates of a reference TP (or another TP). (Ti-T1) is atransmission time offset between the two TPs, which may be referred toas “real time difference” (RTD), and ni and n1 may represent valuesrelated to UE TOA measurement errors.

(2) E-CID (Enhanced Cell ID)

In cell ID (CID) positioning, the location of a UE may be measured basedon geographic information about the serving ng-eNB, serving gNB and/orserving cell of the UE. For example, the geographic information aboutthe serving ng-eNB, the serving gNB, and/or the serving cell may beobtained by paging, registration, or the like.

For E-CID positioning, an additional UE measurement and/or NG-RAN radioresources may be used to improve a UE location estimate in addition tothe CID positioning method. In the E-CID positioning method, althoughsome of the same measurement methods as in the measurement controlsystem of the RRC protocol may be used, an additional measurement isgenerally not performed only for positioning the UE. In other words, aseparate measurement configuration or measurement control message maynot be provided to position the UE, and the UE may also report ameasured value obtained by generally available measurement methods,without expecting that an additional measurement operation only forpositioning will be requested.

For example, the serving gNB may implement the E-CID positioning methodusing an E-UTRA measurement received from the UE.

Exemplary measurement elements that are available for E-CID positioningare given as follows.

-   -   UE measurements: E-UTRA RSRP, E-UTRA RSRQ, UE E-UTRA Rx-Tx time        difference, GSM EDGE random access network (GERAN)/WLAN RSSI,        UTRAN common pilot channel (CPICH) received signal code power        (RSCP), and UTRAN CPICH Ec/Io    -   E-UTRAN measurements: ng-eNB Rx-Tx time difference, timing        advance (TADV), and angle of arrival (AoA)

TADVs may be classified into Type 1 and Type 2 as follows.

TADV Type 1=(ng-eNB Rx-Tx time difference)+(UE E-UTRA Rx-Tx timedifference)

TADV Type 2=ng-eNB Rx-Tx time difference

On the other hand, an AoA may be used to measure the direction of theUE. The AoA may be defined as an estimated angle of the UE with respectto the location of the UE counterclockwise from a BS/TP. A geographicalreference direction may be North. The BS/TP may use a UL signal such asa sounding reference signal (SRS) and/or a DMRS for AoA measurement. Asthe arrangement of antenna arrays is larger, the measurement accuracy ofthe AoA is higher. When the antenna arrays are arranged at the sameinterval, signals received at adjacent antenna elements may have aconstant phase change (phase rotation).

(3) UTDOA (UL Time Difference of Arrival)

A UTDOA is a method of determining the location of a UE by estimatingthe arrival time of an SRS. When the estimated SRS arrival time iscalculated, a serving cell may be used as a reference cell to estimatethe location of the UE based on the difference in arrival time fromanother cell (or BS/TP). In order to implement the UTDOA method, anE-SMLC may indicate the serving cell of a target UE to indicate SRStransmission to the target UE. Further, the E-SMLC may provide aconfiguration such as whether an SRS is periodic/aperiodic, a bandwidth,and frequency/group/sequence hopping.

Synchronization acquisition of an SL UE will be described below.

In TDMA and FDMA systems, accurate time and frequency synchronization isessential. Inaccurate time and frequency synchronization may lead todegradation of system performance due to inter-symbol interference (ISI)and inter-carrier interference (ICI). The same is true for V2X. Fortime/frequency synchronization in V2X, a sidelink synchronization signal(SLSS) may be used in the PHY layer, and master informationblock-sidelink-V2X (MIB-SL-V2X) may be used in the RLC layer.

FIG. 28 illustrates a synchronization source or synchronizationreference of V2X according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

Referring to FIG. 28, in V2X, a UE may be synchronized with a GNSSdirectly or indirectly through a UE (within or out of network coverage)directly synchronized with the GNSS. When the GNSS is configured as asynchronization source, the UE may calculate a direct subframe number(DFN) and a subframe number by using a coordinated universal time (UTC)and a (pre)determined DFN offset.

Alternatively, the UE may be synchronized with a BS directly or withanother UE which has been time/frequency synchronized with the BS. Forexample, the BS may be an eNB or a gNB. For example, when the UE is innetwork coverage, the UE may receive synchronization informationprovided by the BS and may be directly synchronized with the BS.Thereafter, the UE may provide synchronization information to anotherneighboring UE. When a BS timing is set as a synchronization reference,the UE may follow a cell associated with a corresponding frequency (whenwithin the cell coverage in the frequency), a primary cell, or a servingcell (when out of cell coverage in the frequency), for synchronizationand DL measurement.

The BS (e.g., serving cell) may provide a synchronization configurationfor a carrier used for V2X or SL communication. In this case, the UE mayfollow the synchronization configuration received from the BS. When theUE fails in detecting any cell in the carrier used for the V2X or SLcommunication and receiving the synchronization configuration from theserving cell, the UE may follow a predetermined synchronizationconfiguration.

Alternatively, the UE may be synchronized with another UE which has notobtained synchronization information directly or indirectly from the BSor GNSS. A synchronization source and a preference may be preset for theUE. Alternatively, the synchronization source and the preference may beconfigured for the UE by a control message provided by the BS.

An SL synchronization source may be related to a synchronizationpriority. For example, the relationship between synchronization sourcesand synchronization priorities may be defined as shown in Table 14 orTable 15. Table 14 or Table 15 is merely an example, and therelationship between synchronization sources and synchronizationpriorities may be defined in various manners.

TABLE 14 Priority level GNSS-based synchronization eNB/gNB-basedsynchronization P0 GNSS eNB/gNB P1 All UEs synchronized All UEssynchronized directly with GNSS directly with NB/gNB P2 All UEssynchronized All UEs synchronized indirectly with GNSS indirectly witheNB/gNB P3 All other UEs GNSS P4 N/A All UEs synchronized directly withGNSS P5 N/A All UEs synchronized indirectly with GNSS P6 N/A All otherUEs

TABLE 15 Priority level GNSS-based synchronization eNB/gNB-basedsynchronization P0 GNSS eNB/gNB P1 All UEs synchronized All UEssynchronized directly with GNSS directly with eNB/gNB P2 All UEssynchronized All UEs synchronized indirectly with GNSS indirectly witheNB/gNB P3 eNB/gNB GNSS P4 All UEs synchronized All UEs synchronizeddirectly with eNB/gNB directly with GNSS P5 All UEs synchronized All UEssynchronized indirectly with eNB/gNB indirectly with GNSS P6 RemainingUE(s) with Remaining UE(s) with lower lower priority priority

In Table 14 or Table 15, P0 may represent a highest priority, and P6 mayrepresent a lowest priority. In Table 14 or Table 15, the BS may includeat least one of a gNB or an eNB.

Whether to use GNSS-based synchronization or eNB/gNB-basedsynchronization may be (pre)determined. In a single-carrier operation,the UE may derive its transmission timing from an availablesynchronization reference with the highest priority.

A BWP and a resource pool will be described below.

When bandwidth adaptation (BA) is used, the reception bandwidth andtransmission bandwidth of the UE need not be as large as the bandwidthof a cell, and may be adjusted. For example, the network/BS may informthe UE of the bandwidth adjustment. For example, the UE may receiveinformation/a configuration for bandwidth adjustment from thenetwork/BS. In this case, the UE may perform bandwidth adjustment basedon the received information/configuration. For example, the bandwidthadjustment may include a decrease/increase of the bandwidth, a change inthe position of the bandwidth, or a change in the SCS of the bandwidth.

For example, the bandwidth may be reduced during a time period of lowactivity in order to save power. For example, the position of thebandwidth may be shifted in the frequency domain. For example, theposition of the bandwidth may be shifted in the frequency domain toincrease scheduling flexibility. For example, the SCS of the bandwidthmay be changed. For example, the SCS of the bandwidth may be changed toallow a different service. A subset of the total cell bandwidth of acell may be referred to as a BWP. BA may be implemented by configuringBWPs for the UE and indicating a current active BWP among the configuredBWPs to the UE by the BS/network.

FIG. 29 illustrates a plurality of BWPs according to an embodiment ofthe present disclosure.

Referring to FIG. 29, BWP1 having a bandwidth of 40 MHz and an SCS of 15kHz, BWP2 having a bandwidth of 10 MHz and an SCS of 15 kHz, and BWP3having a bandwidth of 20 MHz and an SCS of 60 kHz may be configured.

FIG. 30 illustrates BWPs according to an embodiment of the presentdisclosure. In the embodiment of FIG. 30, it is assumed that there arethree BWPs.

Referring to FIG. 30, common resource blocks (CRBs) may be carrier RBsnumbered from one end of a carrier band to the other end of the carrierband. PRBs may be RBs numbered within each BWP. A point A may indicate acommon reference point for a resource block grid. A BWP may beconfigured by the point A, an offset NstartBWP from the point A, and abandwidth NsizeBWP. For example, the point A may be an externalreference point for a PRB of a carrier, in which subcarrier 0 is alignedfor all numerologies (e.g., all numerologies supported in the carrier bythe network). For example, the offset may be a PRB interval between thelowest subcarrier for a given numerology and the point A. For example,the bandwidth may be the number of PRBs for the given technology.

A BWP may be defined for SL. The same SL BWP may be used fortransmission and reception. For example, a transmitting UE may transmitan SL channel or an SL signal in a specific BWP, and a receiving UE mayreceive the SL channel or the SL signal in the specific BWP. In alicensed carrier, an SL BWP may be defined separately from a Uu BWP, andhave separate configuration signaling from the Uu BWP. For example, a UEmay receive a configuration for the SL BWP from the BS/network. The SLBWP may be (pre)configured for an out-of-coverage NR V2X UE and anRRC_IDLE UE in the carrier. For a UE in RRC_CONNECTED mode, at least oneSL BWP may be activated in the carrier.

A resource pool may be a set of time-frequency resources available forSL transmission and/or SL reception. From the viewpoint of a UE,time-domain resources of a resource pool may not be contiguous. Aplurality of resource pools may be (pre)configured for the UE in onecarrier. From the viewpoint of the PHY layer, the UE may performunicast, groupcast, and broadcast communication using a configured orpreconfigured resource pool.

Now, a description will be given of power control.

Methods of controlling its UL transmission power at a UE may includeopen-loop power control (OLPC) and closed-loop power control (CLPC).According to OLPC, the UE may estimate a DL pathloss from the BS of thecell to which the UE belongs, and perform power control by compensatingfor the pathloss. For example, according to OLPC, when the distancebetween the UE and the BS is further increased and a DL pathloss isincreased, the UE may control UL power by further increasing ULtransmission power. According to CLPC, the UE may receive information(e.g., a control signal) required for adjusting UL transmission powerfrom the BS, and control UL power based on the information received fromthe BS. That is, according to CLPC, the UE may control the UL poweraccording to a direct power control command received from the BS.

OLPC may be supported in SL. Specifically, when a transmitting UE iswithin the coverage of a BS, the BS may enable OLPC for unicast,groupcast, and broadcast transmissions based on a pathloss between thetransmitting UE and a serving BS of the transmitting UE. When thetransmitting UE receives information/a configuration from the BS toenable OLPC, the transmitting UE may enable OLPC for unicast, groupcastor broadcast transmissions. This may be intended to mitigateinterference with UL reception of the BS.

Additionally, in the case of at least unicast, a configuration may beenabled to use a pathloss between the transmitting UE and the receivingUE. For example, the configuration may be preconfigured for the UEs. Thereceiving UE may report an SL channel measurement result (e.g., SL RSRP)to the transmitting UE, and the transmitting UE may derive a pathlossestimate from the SL channel measurement result reported by thereceiving UE. For example, in the SL, when the transmitting UE transmitsan RS to the receiving UE, the receiving UE may measure a channelbetween the transmitting UE and the receiving UE based on the RStransmitted by the transmitting UE. The receiving UE may transmit the SLchannel measurement result to the transmitting UE. The transmitting UEmay then estimate an SL pathloss from the receiving UE based on the SLchannel measurement result. The transmitting UE may perform SL powercontrol by compensating for the estimated pathloss, and perform SLtransmission to the receiving UE. According to OLPC in SL, for example,when the distance between the transmitting UE and the receiving UEbecomes greater and the SL pathloss becomes larger, the transmitting UEmay control the SL transmission power by further increasing thetransmission power of the SL. The power control may be applied fortransmission of an SL physical channel (e.g., PSCCH, PSSCH, or PSFCH)and/or an SL signal.

To support OLPC, in the case of at least unicast, long-term measurements(i.e., L3 filtering) may be supported in the SL.

For example, a total SL transmission power may be equal in symbols usedfor PSCCH and/or PSSCH transmission in a slot. For example, a maximum SLtransmission power may be preconfigured or configured for thetransmitting UE or.

For example, in the case of SL OLPC, the transmitting UE may beconfigured to use only a DL pathloss (e.g., a pathloss between thetransmitting UE and the BS). For example, in the case of SL OLPC, thetransmitting UE may be configured to use only an SL pathloss (e.g., apathloss between the transmitting UE and the receiving UE). For example,in the case of SL OLPC, the transmitting UE may be configured to use aDL pathloss and an SL pathloss.

For example, when it is configured that both a DL pathloss and an SLpathloss are used for SL OLPC, the transmitting UE may determine, astransmission power, the minimum between power obtained based on the DLpathloss and power obtained based on the SL pathloss. The minimum valuemay be determined as the transmission power. For example, P0 and alphavalues may be configured separately for the DL pathloss and the SLpathloss, or preconfigured. For example, P0 may be a user-specificparameter related to an average received SINK. For example, the alphavalue may be a weight value for a pathloss.

SL congestion control will be described below.

When the UE autonomously determines SL transmission resources, the UEalso autonomously determines the size and frequency of the resourcesused by itself. Obviously, due to constraints from the network, the useof resource sizes or frequencies above a certain level may be limited.However, in a situation in which a large number of UEs are concentratedin a specific region at a specific time point, when all the UEs userelatively large resources, overall performance may be greatly degradeddue to interference.

Therefore, the UE needs to observe a channel condition. When the UEdetermines that excessive resources are being consumed, it is desirablefor the UE to take an action of reducing its own resource use. In thisspecification, this may be referred to as congestion control. Forexample, the UE may determine whether an energy measured in a unittime/frequency resource is equal to or greater than a predeterminedlevel and control the amount and frequency of its transmission resourcesaccording to the ratio of unit time/frequency resources in which theenergy equal to or greater than the predetermined level is observed. Inthe present disclosure, a ratio of time/frequency resources in which anenergy equal to or greater than a predetermined level is observed may bedefined as a CBR. The UE may measure a CBR for a channel/frequency. Inaddition, the UE may transmit the measured CBR to the network/BS.

FIG. 31 illustrates resource units for CBR measurement according to anembodiment of the present disclosure.

Referring to FIG. 31, a CBR may refer to the number of subchannels ofwhich the RSSI measurements are equal to or larger than a predeterminedthreshold as a result of measuring an RSSI in each subchannel during aspecific period (e.g., 100 ms) by a UE. Alternatively, a CBR may referto a ratio of subchannels having values equal to or greater than apredetermined threshold among subchannels during a specific period. Forexample, in the embodiment of FIG. 31, on the assumption that thehatched subchannels have values greater than or equal to a predeterminedthreshold, the CBR may refer to a ratio of hatched subchannels for atime period of 100 ms. In addition, the UE may report the CBR to the BS.

For example, when a PSCCH and a PSSCH are multiplexed as illustrated inthe embodiment of FIG. 32, the UE may perform one CBR measurement in oneresource pool. When PSFCH resources are configured or preconfigured, thePSFCH resources may be excluded from the CBR measurement.

Further, there may be a need for performing congestion control inconsideration of the priority of traffic (e.g., a packet). To this end,for example, the UE may measure a channel occupancy ratio (CR).Specifically, the UE may measure a CBR and determine a maximum valueCRlimitk of a CR k (CRk) available for traffic corresponding to eachpriority (e.g., k) according to the CBR. For example, the UE may derivethe maximum value CRlimitk of the channel occupancy ratio for thepriority of traffic, based on a predetermined table of CBR measurements.For example, for relatively high-priority traffic, the UE may derive arelatively large maximum value of a channel occupancy ratio. Thereafter,the UE may perform congestion control by limiting the sum of the channeloccupancy ratios of traffic with priorities k lower than i to apredetermined value or less. According to this method, a stricterchannel occupancy ratio limit may be imposed on relatively low-prioritytraffic.

Besides, the UE may perform SL congestion control by using a scheme suchas transmission power adjustment, packet dropping, determination as towhether to retransmit, and adjustment of a transmission RB size (MCSadjustment).

PHY-layer processing for SL will be described below.

FIG. 33 illustrates PHY-layer processing for SL, according to anembodiment of the present disclosure.

The UE may split a long TB into a plurality of short CBs. After the UEencodes each of the plurality of short CBs, the UE may combine theplurality of short CBs into one CB again. The UE may then transmit thecombined CB to another UE.

Specifically, referring to FIG. 33, the UE may first perform a CRCencoding process on a long TB. The UE may attach a CRC to the TB.Subsequently, the UE may divide the full-length TB attached with the CRCinto a plurality of short CBs. The UE may perform the CRC encodingprocess on each of the plurality of short CBs again. The UE may attach aCRC to each of the CBs. Accordingly, each CB may include a CRC. Each CBattached with a CRC may be input to a channel encoder andchannel-encoded. Thereafter, the UE may perform rate matching, bitwisescrambling, modulation, layer mapping, precoding, and antenna mappingfor each CB, and transmit the CBs to a receiving end.

In addition, the channel coding scheme described with reference to FIGS.21 and 22 may be applied to SL. For example, UL/DL physical channels andsignals described with reference to FIGS. 21 and 22 may be replaced withSL physical channels and signals. For example, channel coding definedfor a data channel and a control channel at NR Uu may be definedsimilarly to channel coding for a data channel and a control channel onNR SL, respectively.

Embodiments

Direct communication may be conducted between UEs on SL. For example, agNB may indicate time and frequency resources and/or a transmissionscheme (e.g., an MCS, the number of transmission layers, the number ofcodewords, CBG information, HARQ process information, PMI information,and the like) for SL transmission to a specific UE (by higher layersignaling and/or a DCI indication), and the UE may transmit a PSCCH anda PSSCH to another UE based on the indicated information. The UEreceiving the PSCCH/PSSCH may be associated with the same serving cellas or a different serving cell from the UE transmitting the PSCCH/PSSCH,or may be in an out-of-coverage situation.

As such, SL transmission based on indicated information from a BS isreferred to as SL transmission mode 1 in the embodiment(s) of thepresent disclosure. In SL transmission mode 1, communication between UEsmay occur based on an indication from a BS even at a retransmission.Even when another initial transmission starts, it may be favorable interms of efficient resource management for SL transmission for the BS tobe aware of the communication situation between UEs. FIG. 34 illustratesa system environment considered in the embodiment(s) of the presentdisclosure.

Referring to FIG. 34, UE1 may receive a PDCCH from a gNB in step S3401.The PDCCH, which is a PDCCH related to a PSSCH, may include resourceallocation information available to UE1 for SL signal transmission toUE2. In step S3402, UE1 may transmit an SL signal, PSCCH/PSSCH to UE2.In step S3043, UE2 may receive the PSSCH and transmit a PFSCH for thePSSCH. That is, UE1 may receive the PFSCH for the PSSCH from UE2. ThisPSFCH may be UCI (i.e., SFCI) for the received PSSCH. In step S3404, UE1may transmit feedback information to the gNB on a PUCCH based on thePSFCH for the PSSCH. That is, UE1 may report the UCI to the gNB based onthe PSFCH received from UE2. The UCI (or UCI for the SL transmissionabout which the UE will report to the gNB) is (1) HARQ-ACK informationfor the SL transmission or for transmission and reception of the PSCCHand/or the PSSCH, (2) channel/transmission quality information (e.g.,CSI) between the UEs participating in the SL transmission, and/or (3)preferred or configurable configuration/parameter set information forthe SL transmission.

The transmission timing of the PUCCH carrying the feedback informationmay be determined based on information indicating the number of slotsfrom the PSFCH to the PUCCH. More specifically, when UE1 transmits thePSSCH to UE2 and transmits the feedback information to the gNB on thePUCCH based on the PSFCH for the PSSCH, the transmission timing of thePUCCH may be determined by information indicating the number of slotsfrom the PSFCH to the PUCCH. That is, an indication value for a UCItransmission timing may be information about an offset between a slotcarrying the PSFCH for the PSSCH transmitted in resources indicated bythe PDCCH including the indication value and a slot carrying the UCI(the PUCCH carrying the feedback information based on the PSFCH). A slotoffset or timing difference between the PSSCH and the PSFCH may beindicated by the gNB (by higher-layer signaling or a DCI indication) ormay be predefined. Alternatively, it may be the case that the gNB maysuccessfully receive/decode the PSCCH transmitted by the UE.

FIG. 35 illustrates an example of the above operation. In FIG. 35, thesquare boxes represent slots, and the transmission positions of channelsare merely an example. Referring to FIG. 35, after receiving a PDCCHfrom the gNB, UE1 transmits a PSSCH to UE2. UE1 receives a PSFCH for thePSSCH from UE2. UE1 then transmits feedback information based on thePSFCH to the gNB on a PUCCH, and the transmission timing of the PUCCHmay be determined by offset information or a value K=4 which isinformation indicating the number of slots from the PSFCH to the PUCCH.As such, the PUCCH transmission timing is based on the PSFCH because thePUCCH is for the PSFCH, and thus the PUCCH transmission timing may beset to an earliest time only when the feedback time is used as areference. When the PUCCH transmission timing is determined based on thePDCCH, there is no problem in the case of transmitting informationindicating the number of slots in DCI as described below. However, whenthe information is transmitted by RRC signaling, there may be no PDCCHtransmission and thus the reference becomes obscure. When the PUCCHtransmission timing is determined based on the PSSCH, the value maybecome too large. The PSFCH transmission/reception timing in the PSSCHis defined based on a logical slot. Basically, the transmission of thePUCCH should occur after the reception of the PSFCH. Therefore, when thePUCCH timing offset value from the PSSCH is set (e.g., when the physicaltime interval between the PSSCH and the PSFCH is long), the value may beunnecessarily large.

The feedback information may be HARQ-ACK information related to thePSFCH for the PSSCH.

As mentioned earlier, the information indicating the number of slots maybe included in the DCI received by UE1, and the DCI may be received onthe PDCCH related to the PSSCH. The UE may transmit UCI for the SLtransmission to the gNB on a PUCCH or a PUSCH. Particularly, in the caseof the PUCCH, PUCCH resources (e.g., time/frequency/sequence resources)need to be defined. For example, the PUCCH resources for transmittingthe UCI may be indicated by a corresponding indicator, including a PUCCHresource indicator in the DCI for allocating the SL resources. In thiscase, candidate values for the PUCCH resources may be predefined orconfigured by a higher layer. In selecting the PUCCH resources, the UEmay finally select the PUCCH resources based on the indicator includedin the DCI and/or resources (e.g., control channel element (CCE)) inwhich the PDCCH including the DCI is transmitted.

In another example, UE1 may receive the information indicating thenumber of slots by higher layer signaling. That is, the PUCCH resourcesfor the UCI transmission may be configured by the higher layer. PUCCHresource selection may be performed in a different manner according toan SL resource allocation method (one-shot or semi-persistent).

Depending on a synchronization source for the SL, the boundary of a DLslot and/or a UL slot and/or an SL slot may not be aligned. For example,a UE having the GNSS as a synchronization source (reference) and a UEhaving the gNB as a synchronization source (reference) may not besynchronized with each other. Further, the BS may not have informationabout a slot boundary at the UE. In this situation, when a PUCCHtransmission timing is set by using an SL channel as a reference again,misalignment of an actual PUCCH transmission and reception time mayoccur between the BS and the UE. Particularly, when the subcarrier sizeis smaller for the SL than for the DL or UL, the problem may becomeserious. In the case of a PDCCH or when the BS allocates SL resources(e.g., PSCCH/PSSCH resources), slot offset information indicated by thePDCCH or the BS may allocate PSCCH/PSSCH resources in earliest SLresources after a corresponding slot offset value (physical value orlogical value (the number of slots in the resource pool)). In that case,the last (or earliest) of UL numerology-based slots overlapped with thePSCCH, PSSCH or PSFCH transmission slot, which is a zero value of theoffset, that is, a reference point for the offset, may vary according tothe difference between a DL slot and/or UL slot boundary and an SL slotboundary. Hereinafter, methods for solving the ambiguity will bedescribed.

For example, when the BS configures a PUCCH slot offset value andindicates the PUCCH slot offset value to the UE on the assumption that aDL and/or UL and/or SL slot boundary is aligned, the UE may apply theoffset by subtracting, from the offset, a slot difference between areference point derived when the boundary of an actual SL slot isaligned with that of a UL slot and a reference point derived based onthe boundary of the actual SL slot. More specifically, as describedabove, UE1 determines a slot to carry the PUCCH based on a valueindicating the number of slots from the PSFCH to the PUCCH, andtransmits feedback information based on the PSFCH on the PUCCH in theslot. The value indicating the number of slots is a value corrected byUE1 based on a synchronization difference between the slot for the PUCCHand the slot for the PSFCH based on misalignment between the slot forthe PUCCH and the slot for the PSFCH. More specifically, the correctedvalue is a value indicating the number of slots minus the timedifference between the slot for the PUCCH and the slot for the PSFCH. Ifthe slot for the PUCCH and the slot for the PSFCH are not synchronized,this may mean that UE1 has a device related to the GNSS as asynchronization reference. However, the present disclosure is notnecessarily limited thereto, and asynchronization with the BS may beattributed to other reasons.

In another example, on the assumption that the boundaries of an SL slotand a UL slot are aligned, the UE may select the earliest slot n of theUL numerology-based slots overlapping with the PSCCH, PSSCH, or PSFCHtransmission slot as in the operation of the BS, and set the referencepoint for the PUCCH transmission slot offset to n+(2{circumflex over( )}{u_UL}/2{circumflex over ( )}{u_SL}). Alternatively, the UE mayselect the last slot n of the UL numerology-based slots overlapping withthe PSCCH, PSSCH, or PSFCH transmission slot, and set the referencepoint for the PUCCH transmission slot offset to n+(2{circumflex over( )}{u_UL}/2{circumflex over ( )}{u_SL}). When an SL subcarrier size isequal to a UL subcarrier size but the boundaries of an SL slot and a ULslot are apart from each other by one or more slots, the reference pointof the PUCCH transmission slot offset may be set to n+1 (from theearliest of the UL numerology-based slots overlapping with the PSCCH,PSSCH, or PSFCH transmission slot) or n+2 (from the last of the ULnumerology-based slots overlapping with the PSCCH, PSSCH, or PSFCHtransmission slot). That is, the UE may reset the reference point of thePUCCH transmission slot offset from n to one of the values ofn+(2{circumflex over ( )}{u_UL}/2{circumflex over ( )}{u_SL}) accordingto the boundary of the SL slot. The value added to n may be used tochange the reference point of the PUCCH transmission slot, or may beused as an additional offset when the PUCCH transmission timing isapplied from the existing reference point. For example, the UE may addor subtract a specific offset to or from a PUCCH transmission slotoffset received from the BS (on a PDCCH or by higher-layer signaling).

Alternatively, when the BS configures a PUCCH slot offset value andindicates the PUCCH slot offset value to the UE, assuming that the DLand/or UL and/or SL slot boundary is not aligned (assuming that thePUCCH transmission timing is worst), the UE may apply the PUCCH slotoffset by adding the PUCCH slot offset to the difference between thereference point derived when the boundary of an actual SL slot isaligned with that of a UL slot and a reference point derived based onthe boundary of the actual SL slot.

The UE-based UL slot boundary may be before or after TA application. Inthe above description, the UE may know all of the boundaries of DLand/or UL and/or SL slots.

Subsequently, the BS and the UE may set a reference point for the PUCCHslot offset according to a specific synchronization situation. Forexample, a final PUCCH transmission timing may be set based on the lastreference slot in time among a plurality of reference slots that mayoccur according to a difference between a DL slot and/or UL slotboundary and a SL slot boundary. For example, the reference point may beupdated, and/or an additional offset value may be applied when the slotoffset value is applied. In this case, the BS may change the referencepoint for the PUCCH transmission slot according to an SL subcarrier sizeand a UL subcarrier size.

Specifically, the UE may select the last slot n of the ULnumerology-based slots overlapping with the PSCCH, PSSCH or PSFCHtransmission slot, and set the reference point of the PUCCH transmissionslot offset to n+(2{circumflex over ( )}{u_UL}/2{circumflex over( )}{u_SL}). That is, based on synchronization between the slot for thePUCCH and the slot for the PSFCH, the reference point for applying thevalue indicating the number of slots is n+(2{circumflex over( )}{u_UL}/2{circumflex over ( )}{u_SL}) where n is the last of PUCCHslots overlapping with PSFCH slots, u_UL may indicate a UL numerology,and u_SL may indicate an SL numerology. The numerology relationshipbetween u_UL and u_SL may be based on the following Table 16.

TABLE 16 Number of symbols Number of slots per Number of slots per u perslot frame subframe 0 14 10 1 1 14 20 2 2 14 40 4 3 14 80 8 4 14 160 16

In another example, the BS may select the earliest slot n of the ULnumerology-based slots overlapping with the PSCCH, PSSCH, or PSFCHtransmission slot, assuming that an SL slot boundary is aligned with aDL and/or UL slot boundary, and set the reference point of the PUCCHtransmission slot offset to n+(2{circumflex over ( )}{u_UL}/2{circumflexover ( )}{u_SL})-1, for an SL numerology of u_SL and a UL numerology ofu_UL.

When the SL subcarrier size is equal to the UL subcarrier size but theSL slot boundary and the UL slot boundary are apart from each other byone or more slots, the reference point of the PUCCH transmission slotoffset may be n+1 (from the earliest of the UL numerology-based slotsoverlapping with the PSCCH, PSSCH, or PSFCH transmission slot) or n+2(from the last of the UL numerology-based slots overlapping with thePSCCH, PSSCH, or PSFCH transmission slot). Alternatively, the referencepoint may still be derived on the assumption that the DL and/or UL slotboundary is aligned, from the viewpoint of the BS. In this case, the BSmay set a sufficiently large PUCCH slot offset value, assuming the aboveasynchronous situation, and the UE may apply the offset value receivedon the PDCCH or from the BS in a different manner according to asynchronization situation. Alternatively, a final PUCCHtransmission/reception timing may be reset and applied by using anadditional offset used to change the reference point.

FIG. 36 illustrates various examples of the case in which a DLsubcarrier size and/or a UL subcarrier size and/or an SL subcarrier sizeis different. FIG. 36(a) illustrates a case in which the earliest ofPUCCH slots overlapping with PSFCH slots is set as a reference point,when the subcarrier sizes are different, and FIGS. 36(b) and 36(c)illustrate cases in which the last of PUCCH slots overlapping with PSFCHslots is set as a reference point.

While SL transmission mode 1 is assumed in the above description, theidea of the present disclosure may also be extended to other SLtransmission methods. On the contrary, the idea of the presentdisclosure may also be extended even to a situation in which informationabout a communication situation between a general UE and a BS istransmitted/reported to another UE on SL.

In the above description, the following may be assumed forPSCCH/PSSCH/PFSCH transmission on SL, for the convenience ofdescription. A capability for each transmission scheme may varyaccording to a carrier or service type corresponding to the SL. Forexample, TB-based transmission and HARQ-ACK feedback may be availablefor a specific carrier or service type, whereas CBG-based transmissionand HARQ-ACK feedback may be available for another specific carrier orservice type. In another example, a MIMO operation, that is, the maximumnumber of supported TBs may be different for each carrier or servicetype. In a general situation, indicating/configuring a suitabletransmission and reception method for SL transmission between UEs by agNB may not be efficient. Rather, a PSCCH/PSSCH transmitting UE mayautonomously determine/configure the transmission and reception method.In a more specific example, the UE may set/configure different SCIformats (transmitted on a PSCCH) for CBG-based transmission and TB-basedtransmission. Likewise, different SCI formats or specific field valuecombinations (e.g., MCS and RV) within an SCI format may be used todistinguish 1-TB transmission and 2-TB transmission from each other. APSCCH/PSSCH receiving UE may determine a transmission scheme and anHARQ-ACK codebook size based on an SCI format and/or an in-SCI fieldvalue indication that the PSCCH/PSSCH receiving UE has succeeded indetecting. More characteristically, according to the above method,HARQ-ACKs for different transmission schemes (e.g., TB-based andCBG-based transmissions, and 1-TB and 2-TB transmissions) may not betransmitted on the same PSFCH. When it is possible to transmit HARQ-ACKsfor different transmission schemes on the same PSFCH, a total HARQ-ACKcodebook size may be determined based on a transmission scheme with alarger number of HARQ-ACK bits.

Since an example of a proposed method may also be included as one ofimplementation methods of the present disclosure, it may be regarded asa kind of proposed method of the present disclosure. While theabove-described proposed methods may be independently implemented, someproposed methods may be implemented in combination (or merged). Forexample, the proposed methods of the present disclosure have beendescribed in the context of a 3GPP NR system for the convenience ofdescription, the scope of systems to which the proposed methods areapplied may be extended to other systems in addition to the 3GPP NRsystem. For example, the proposed methods of the present disclosure maybe extended and applied to device-to-device (D2D) communication. Forexample, D2D communication refers to communication between UEs via adirect radio channel. For example, although the UEs are terminals ofusers, when network equipment such as a BS transmits/receives a signalaccording to a UE-to-UE communication scheme, the network equipment mayalso be regarded as a kind of UE. Further, for example, the proposedmethods of the present disclosure may be restrictively applied only to aMODE 3 V2X operation (and/or a MODE 4 V2X operation). Further, forexample, the proposed methods of the present disclosure may berestrictively applied only to preconfigured(/signaled) (specific) V2Xchannel(/signal) transmission (e.g., PSSCH (and/or (linked) PSCCH and/orPSBCH)). Further, for example, the proposed methods of the presentdisclosure may be restrictively applied only to a case in which a PSSCHand a (linked) PSCCH are transmitted adjacent (and/or non-adjacent) (inthe frequency domain) (and/or a case in which transmission is performedbased on a preconfigured (/signaled) MCS (and/or coding rate and/or RB)(value (/range)). Further, for example, the proposed methods of thepresent disclosure may be restrictively applied only between a MODE 3(and/or MODE 4) V2X carrier and(/or a MODE 4(/3)) SL(/UL)) an SPS(and/or SL(/UL) dynamic scheduling) carrier. Further, for example, theproposed methods of the present disclosure may be restrictively appliedonly when the positions and/or number of (transmission (and/orreception)) resources (and/or the positions and/or number of subframes(and/or the size and/or number of subchannels) related to a V2X resourcepool) is the same between carriers. For example, the proposed methods ofthe present disclosure may be extended to (V2X) communication between aBS and a UE. For example, the proposed methods of the present disclosuremay be restrictively applied only to unicast (SL) communication (and/ormulticast (or groupcast) (SL) communication and/or broadcast (SL)communication).

Examples of Communication Systems Applicable to the Present Disclosure

The various descriptions, functions, procedures, proposals, methods,and/or operational flowcharts of the present disclosure described inthis document may be applied to, without being limited to, a variety offields requiring wireless communication/connection (e.g., 5G) betweendevices.

Hereinafter, a description will be given in more detail with referenceto the drawings. In the following drawings/description, the samereference symbols may denote the same or corresponding hardware blocks,software blocks, or functional blocks unless described otherwise.

FIG. 37 illustrates a communication system 1 applied to the presentdisclosure.

Referring to FIG. 37, a communication system 1 applied to the presentdisclosure includes wireless devices, BSs, and a network. Herein, thewireless devices represent devices performing communication using RAT(e.g., 5G NR or LTE) and may be referred to as communication/radio/5Gdevices. The wireless devices may include, without being limited to, arobot 100 a, vehicles 100 b-1 and 100 b-2, an eXtended Reality (XR)device 100 c, a hand-held device 100 d, a home appliance 100 e, anInternet of things (IoT) device 100 f, and an artificial intelligence(AI) device/server 400. For example, the vehicles may include a vehiclehaving a wireless communication function, an autonomous driving vehicle,and a vehicle capable of performing communication between vehicles.Herein, the vehicles may include an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) (e.g.,a drone). The XR device may include an augmented reality (AR)/virtualreality (VR)/mixed reality (MR) device and may be implemented in theform of a head-mounted device (HMD), a head-up display (HUD) mounted ina vehicle, a television, a smartphone, a computer, a wearable device, ahome appliance device, a digital signage, a vehicle, a robot, etc. Thehand-held device may include a smartphone, a smartpad, a wearable device(e.g., a smartwatch or a smartglasses), and a computer (e.g., anotebook). The home appliance may include a TV, a refrigerator, and awashing machine. The IoT device may include a sensor and a smartmeter.For example, the BSs and the network may be implemented as wirelessdevices and a specific wireless device 200 a may operate as a BS/networknode with respect to other wireless devices.

The wireless devices 100 a to 100 f may be connected to the network 300via the BSs 200. An AI technology may be applied to the wireless devices100 a to 100 f and the wireless devices 100 a to 100 f may be connectedto the AI server 400 via the network 300. The network 300 may beconfigured using a 3G network, a 4G (e.g., LTE) network, or a 5G (e.g.,NR) network. Although the wireless devices 100 a to 100 f maycommunicate with each other through the BSs 200/network 300, thewireless devices 100 a to 100 f may perform direct communication (e.g.,sidelink communication) with each other without passing through theBSs/network. For example, the vehicles 100 b-1 and 100 b-2 may performdirect communication (e.g. V2V/V2X communication). The IoT device (e.g.,a sensor) may perform direct communication with other IoT devices (e.g.,sensors) or other wireless devices 100 a to 100 f.

Wireless communication/connections 150 a, 150 b, or 150 c may beestablished between the wireless devices 100 a to 100 f/BS 200, or BS200/BS 200. Herein, the wireless communication/connections may beestablished through various RATs (e.g., 5G NR) such as UL/DLcommunication 150 a, sidelink communication 150 b (or, D2Dcommunication), or inter BS communication (e.g. relay, integrated accessbackhaul (IAB)). The wireless devices and the BSs/the wireless devicesmay transmit/receive radio signals to/from each other through thewireless communication/connections 150 a and 150 b. For example, thewireless communication/connections 150 a and 150 b may transmit/receivesignals through various physical channels. To this end, at least a partof various configuration information configuring processes, varioussignal processing processes (e.g., channel encoding/decoding,modulation/demodulation, and resource mapping/demapping), and resourceallocating processes, for transmitting/receiving radio signals, may beperformed based on the various proposals of the present disclosure.

Examples of Wireless Devices Applicable to the Present Disclosure

FIG. 38 illustrates wireless devices applicable to the presentdisclosure.

Referring to FIG. 38, a first wireless device 100 and a second wirelessdevice 200 may transmit radio signals through a variety of RATs (e.g.,LTE and NR). Herein, {the first wireless device 100 and the secondwireless device 200} may correspond to {the wireless device 100 x andthe BS 200} and/or {the wireless device 100 x and the wireless device100 x} of FIG. 37.

The first wireless device 100 may include one or more processors 102 andone or more memories 104 and additionally further include one or moretransceivers 106 and/or one or more antennas 108. The processor(s) 102may control the memory(s) 104 and/or the transceiver(s) 106 and may beconfigured to implement the descriptions, functions, procedures,proposals, methods, and/or operational flowcharts disclosed in thisdocument. For example, the processor(s) 102 may process informationwithin the memory(s) 104 to generate first information/signals and thentransmit radio signals including the first information/signals throughthe transceiver(s) 106. The processor(s) 102 may receive radio signalsincluding second information/signals through the transceiver 106 andthen store information obtained by processing the secondinformation/signals in the memory(s) 104. The memory(s) 104 may beconnected to the processor(s) 102 and may store a variety of informationrelated to operations of the processor(s) 102. For example, thememory(s) 104 may store software code including commands for performinga part or the entirety of processes controlled by the processor(s) 102or for performing the descriptions, functions, procedures, proposals,methods, and/or operational flowcharts disclosed in this document.Herein, the processor(s) 102 and the memory(s) 104 may be a part of acommunication modem/circuit/chip designed to implement RAT (e.g., LTE orNR). The transceiver(s) 106 may be connected to the processor(s) 102 andtransmit and/or receive radio signals through one or more antennas 108.Each of the transceiver(s) 106 may include a transmitter and/or areceiver. The transceiver(s) 106 may be interchangeably used with RadioFrequency (RF) unit(s). In the present disclosure, the wireless devicemay represent a communication modem/circuit/chip.

The second wireless device 200 may include one or more processors 202and one or more memories 204 and additionally further include one ormore transceivers 206 and/or one or more antennas 208. The processor(s)202 may control the memory(s) 204 and/or the transceiver(s) 206 and maybe configured to implement the descriptions, functions, procedures,proposals, methods, and/or operational flowcharts disclosed in thisdocument. For example, the processor(s) 202 may process informationwithin the memory(s) 204 to generate third information/signals and thentransmit radio signals including the third information/signals throughthe transceiver(s) 206. The processor(s) 202 may receive radio signalsincluding fourth information/signals through the transceiver(s) 106 andthen store information obtained by processing the fourthinformation/signals in the memory(s) 204. The memory(s) 204 may beconnected to the processor(s) 202 and may store a variety of informationrelated to operations of the processor(s) 202. For example, thememory(s) 204 may store software code including commands for performinga part or the entirety of processes controlled by the processor(s) 202or for performing the descriptions, functions, procedures, proposals,methods, and/or operational flowcharts disclosed in this document.Herein, the processor(s) 202 and the memory(s) 204 may be a part of acommunication modem/circuit/chip designed to implement RAT (e.g., LTE orNR). The transceiver(s) 206 may be connected to the processor(s) 202 andtransmit and/or receive radio signals through one or more antennas 208.Each of the transceiver(s) 206 may include a transmitter and/or areceiver. The transceiver(s) 206 may be interchangeably used with RFunit(s). In the present disclosure, the wireless device may represent acommunication modem/circuit/chip.

Hereinafter, hardware elements of the wireless devices 100 and 200 willbe described more specifically. One or more protocol layers may beimplemented by, without being limited to, one or more processors 102 and202. For example, the one or more processors 102 and 202 may implementone or more layers (e.g., functional layers such as PHY, MAC, RLC, PDCP,RRC, and SDAP). The one or more processors 102 and 202 may generate oneor more Protocol Data Units (PDUs) and/or one or more service data unit(SDUs) according to the descriptions, functions, procedures, proposals,methods, and/or operational flowcharts disclosed in this document. Theone or more processors 102 and 202 may generate messages, controlinformation, data, or information according to the descriptions,functions, procedures, proposals, methods, and/or operational flowchartsdisclosed in this document. The one or more processors 102 and 202 maygenerate signals (e.g., baseband signals) including PDUs, SDUs,messages, control information, data, or information according to thedescriptions, functions, procedures, proposals, methods, and/oroperational flowcharts disclosed in this document and provide thegenerated signals to the one or more transceivers 106 and 206. The oneor more processors 102 and 202 may receive the signals (e.g., basebandsignals) from the one or more transceivers 106 and 206 and acquire thePDUs, SDUs, messages, control information, data, or informationaccording to the descriptions, functions, procedures, proposals,methods, and/or operational flowcharts disclosed in this document.

The one or more processors 102 and 202 may be referred to ascontrollers, microcontrollers, microprocessors, or microcomputers. Theone or more processors 102 and 202 may be implemented by hardware,firmware, software, or a combination thereof. As an example, one or moreapplication specific integrated circuits (ASICs), one or more digitalsignal processors (DSPs), one or more digital signal processing devices(DSPDs), one or more programmable logic devices (PLDs), or one or morefield programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) may be included in the one ormore processors 102 and 202. The descriptions, functions, procedures,proposals, methods, and/or operational flowcharts disclosed in thisdocument may be implemented using firmware or software and the firmwareor software may be configured to include the modules, procedures, orfunctions. Firmware or software configured to perform the descriptions,functions, procedures, proposals, methods, and/or operational flowchartsdisclosed in this document may be included in the one or more processors102 and 202 or stored in the one or more memories 104 and 204 so as tobe driven by the one or more processors 102 and 202. The descriptions,functions, procedures, proposals, methods, and/or operational flowchartsdisclosed in this document may be implemented using firmware or softwarein the form of code, commands, and/or a set of commands.

The one or more memories 104 and 204 may be connected to the one or moreprocessors 102 and 202 and store various types of data, signals,messages, information, programs, code, instructions, and/or commands.The one or more memories 104 and 204 may be configured by read-onlymemories (ROMs), random access memories (RAMs), electrically erasableprogrammable read-only memories (EPROMs), flash memories, hard drives,registers, cash memories, computer-readable storage media, and/orcombinations thereof. The one or more memories 104 and 204 may belocated at the interior and/or exterior of the one or more processors102 and 202. The one or more memories 104 and 204 may be connected tothe one or more processors 102 and 202 through various technologies suchas wired or wireless connection.

The one or more transceivers 106 and 206 may transmit user data, controlinformation, and/or radio signals/channels, mentioned in the methodsand/or operational flowcharts of this document, to one or more otherdevices. The one or more transceivers 106 and 206 may receive user data,control information, and/or radio signals/channels, mentioned in thedescriptions, functions, procedures, proposals, methods, and/oroperational flowcharts disclosed in this document, from one or moreother devices. For example, the one or more transceivers 106 and 206 maybe connected to the one or more processors 102 and 202 and transmit andreceive radio signals. For example, the one or more processors 102 and202 may perform control so that the one or more transceivers 106 and 206may transmit user data, control information, or radio signals to one ormore other devices. The one or more processors 102 and 202 may performcontrol so that the one or more transceivers 106 and 206 may receiveuser data, control information, or radio signals from one or more otherdevices. The one or more transceivers 106 and 206 may be connected tothe one or more antennas 108 and 208 and the one or more transceivers106 and 206 may be configured to transmit and receive user data, controlinformation, and/or radio signals/channels, mentioned in thedescriptions, functions, procedures, proposals, methods, and/oroperational flowcharts disclosed in this document, through the one ormore antennas 108 and 208. In this document, the one or more antennasmay be a plurality of physical antennas or a plurality of logicalantennas (e.g., antenna ports). The one or more transceivers 106 and 206may convert received radio signals/channels etc. from RF band signalsinto baseband signals in order to process received user data, controlinformation, radio signals/channels, etc. using the one or moreprocessors 102 and 202. The one or more transceivers 106 and 206 mayconvert the user data, control information, radio signals/channels, etc.processed using the one or more processors 102 and 202 from the baseband signals into the RF band signals. To this end, the one or moretransceivers 106 and 206 may include (analog) oscillators and/orfilters.

Examples of Signal Process Circuit Applicable to the Present Disclosure

FIG. 39 illustrates a signal process circuit for a transmission signal.

Referring to FIG. 39, a signal processing circuit 1000 may includescramblers 1010, modulators 1020, a layer mapper 1030, a precoder 1040,resource mappers 1050, and signal generators 1060. An operation/functionof FIG. 39 may be performed, without being limited to, the processors102 and 202 and/or the transceivers 106 and 206 of FIG. 38. Hardwareelements of FIG. 39 may be implemented by the processors 102 and 202and/or the transceivers 106 and 206 of FIG. 38. For example, blocks 1010to 1060 may be implemented by the processors 102 and 202 of FIG. 38.Alternatively, the blocks 1010 to 1050 may be implemented by theprocessors 102 and 202 of FIG. 38 and the block 1060 may be implementedby the transceivers 106 and 206 of FIG. 38.

Codewords may be converted into radio signals via the signal processingcircuit 1000 of FIG. 39. Herein, the codewords are encoded bit sequencesof information blocks. The information blocks may include transportblocks (e.g., a UL-SCH transport block, a DL-SCH transport block). Theradio signals may be transmitted through various physical channels(e.g., a PUSCH and a PDSCH).

Specifically, the codewords may be converted into scrambled bitsequences by the scramblers 1010. Scramble sequences used for scramblingmay be generated based on an initialization value, and theinitialization value may include ID information of a wireless device.The scrambled bit sequences may be modulated to modulation symbolsequences by the modulators 1020. A modulation scheme may includepi/2-Binary Phase Shift Keying (pi/2-BPSK), m-Phase Shift Keying(m-PSK), and m-Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (m-QAM). Complexmodulation symbol sequences may be mapped to one or more transportlayers by the layer mapper 1030. Modulation symbols of each transportlayer may be mapped (precoded) to corresponding antenna port(s) by theprecoder 1040. Outputs z of the precoder 1040 may be obtained bymultiplying outputs y of the layer mapper 1030 by an N*M precodingmatrix W. Herein, N is the number of antenna ports and M is the numberof transport layers. The precoder 1040 may perform precoding afterperforming transform precoding (e.g., DFT) for complex modulationsymbols. Alternatively, the precoder 1040 may perform precoding withoutperforming transform precoding.

The resource mappers 1050 may map modulation symbols of each antennaport to time-frequency resources. The time-frequency resources mayinclude a plurality of symbols (e.g., a CP-OFDMA symbols and DFT-s-OFDMAsymbols) in the time domain and a plurality of subcarriers in thefrequency domain. The signal generators 1060 may generate radio signalsfrom the mapped modulation symbols and the generated radio signals maybe transmitted to other devices through each antenna. For this purpose,the signal generators 1060 may include IFFT modules, CP inserters,digital-to-analog converters (DACs), and frequency up-converters.

Signal processing procedures for a signal received in the wirelessdevice may be configured in a reverse manner of the signal processingprocedures 1010 to 1060 of FIG. 39. For example, the wireless devices(e.g., 100 and 200 of FIG. 38) may receive radio signals from theexterior through the antenna ports/transceivers. The received radiosignals may be converted into baseband signals through signal restorers.To this end, the signal restorers may include frequency DL converters,analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), CP remover, and FFT modules. Next,the baseband signals may be restored to codewords through a resourcedemapping procedure, a postcoding procedure, a demodulation processor,and a descrambling procedure. The codewords may be restored to originalinformation blocks through decoding. Therefore, a signal processingcircuit (not illustrated) for a reception signal may include signalrestorers, resource demappers, a postcoder, demodulators, descramblers,and decoders.

Examples of Application of Wireless Device Applicable to the PresentDisclosure

FIG. 40 illustrates another example of a wireless device applied to thepresent disclosure. The wireless device may be implemented in variousforms according to a use-case/service (refer to FIG. 37 and FIGS. 41 to46).

Referring to FIG. 40, wireless devices 100 and 200 may correspond to thewireless devices 100 and 200 of FIG. 38 and may be configured by variouselements, components, units/portions, and/or modules. For example, eachof the wireless devices 100 and 200 may include a communication unit110, a control unit 120, a memory unit 130, and additional components140. The communication unit may include a communication circuit 112 andtransceiver(s) 114. For example, the communication circuit 112 mayinclude the one or more processors 102 and 202 and/or the one or morememories 104 and 204 of FIG. 38. For example, the transceiver(s) 114 mayinclude the one or more transceivers 106 and 206 and/or the one or moreantennas 108 and 208 of FIG. 38. The control unit 120 is electricallyconnected to the communication unit 110, the memory 130, and theadditional components 140 and controls overall operation of the wirelessdevices. For example, the control unit 120 may control anelectric/mechanical operation of the wireless device based onprograms/code/commands/information stored in the memory unit 130. Thecontrol unit 120 may transmit the information stored in the memory unit130 to the exterior (e.g., other communication devices) via thecommunication unit 110 through a wireless/wired interface or store, inthe memory unit 130, information received through the wireless/wiredinterface from the exterior (e.g., other communication devices) via thecommunication unit 110.

The additional components 140 may be variously configured according totypes of wireless devices. For example, the additional components 140may include at least one of a power unit/battery, input/output (I/O)unit, a driving unit, and a computing unit. The wireless device may beimplemented in the form of, without being limited to, the robot (100 aof FIG. 37), the vehicles (100 b-1 and 100 b-2 of FIG. 37), the XRdevice (100 c of FIG. 37), the hand-held device (100 d of FIG. 37), thehome appliance (100 e of FIG. 37), the IoT device (100 f of FIG. 37), adigital broadcast terminal, a hologram device, a public safety device,an MTC device, a medicine device, a FinTech device (or a financedevice), a security device, a climate/environment device, the AIserver/device (400 of FIG. 37), the BSs (200 of FIG. 37), a networknode, etc. The wireless device may be used in a mobile or fixed placeaccording to a use-example/service.

In FIG. 40, the entirety of the various elements, components,units/portions, and/or modules in the wireless devices 100 and 200 maybe connected to each other through a wired interface or at least a partthereof may be wirelessly connected through the communication unit 110.For example, in each of the wireless devices 100 and 200, the controlunit 120 and the communication unit 110 may be connected by wire and thecontrol unit 120 and first units (e.g., 130 and 140) may be wirelesslyconnected through the communication unit 110. Each element, component,unit/portion, and/or module within the wireless devices 100 and 200 mayfurther include one or more elements. For example, the control unit 120may be configured by a set of one or more processors. As an example, thecontrol unit 120 may be configured by a set of a communication controlprocessor, an application processor, an electronic control unit (ECU), agraphical processing unit, and a memory control processor. As anotherexample, the memory 130 may be configured by a RAM, a DRAM, a ROM, aflash memory, a volatile memory, a non-volatile memory, and/or acombination thereof.

Hereinafter, an example of implementing FIG. 40 will be described indetail with reference to the drawings.

Examples of a Hand-Held Device Applicable to the Present Disclosure

FIG. 41 illustrates a hand-held device applied to the presentdisclosure. The hand-held device may include a smartphone, a smartpad, awearable device (e.g., a smartwatch or a smartglasses), or a portablecomputer (e.g., a notebook). The hand-held device may be referred to asa mobile station (MS), a user terminal (UT), a mobile subscriber station(MSS), a subscriber station (SS), an advanced mobile station (AMS), or awireless terminal (WT).

Referring to FIG. 41, a hand-held device 100 may include an antenna unit108, a communication unit 110, a control unit 120, a memory unit 130, apower supply unit 140 a, an interface unit 140 b, and an I/O unit 140 c.The antenna unit 108 may be configured as a part of the communicationunit 110. Blocks 110 to 130/140 a to 140 c correspond to the blocks 110to 130/140 of FIG. 40, respectively.

The communication unit 110 may transmit and receive signals (e.g., dataand control signals) to and from other wireless devices or BSs. Thecontrol unit 120 may perform various operations by controllingconstituent elements of the hand-held device 100. The control unit 120may include an application processor (AP). The memory unit 130 may storedata/parameters/programs/code/commands needed to drive the hand-helddevice 100. The memory unit 130 may store input/output data/information.The power supply unit 140 a may supply power to the hand-held device 100and include a wired/wireless charging circuit, a battery, etc. Theinterface unit 140 b may support connection of the hand-held device 100to other external devices. The interface unit 140 b may include variousports (e.g., an audio I/O port and a video I/O port) for connection withexternal devices. The I/O unit 140 c may input or output videoinformation/signals, audio information/signals, data, and/or informationinput by a user. The I/O unit 140 c may include a camera, a microphone,a user input unit, a display unit 140 d, a speaker, and/or a hapticmodule.

As an example, in the case of data communication, the I/O unit 140 c mayacquire information/signals (e.g., touch, text, voice, images, or video)input by a user and the acquired information/signals may be stored inthe memory unit 130. The communication unit 110 may convert theinformation/signals stored in the memory into radio signals and transmitthe converted radio signals to other wireless devices directly or to aBS. The communication unit 110 may receive radio signals from otherwireless devices or the BS and then restore the received radio signalsinto original information/signals. The restored information/signals maybe stored in the memory unit 130 and may be output as various types(e.g., text, voice, images, video, or haptic) through the I/O unit 140c.

Examples of a Vehicle or an Autonomous Driving Vehicle Applicable to thePresent Disclosure

FIG. 42 illustrates a vehicle or an autonomous driving vehicle appliedto the present disclosure. The vehicle or autonomous driving vehicle maybe implemented by a mobile robot, a car, a train, a manned/unmannedaerial vehicle (AV), a ship, etc.

Referring to FIG. 42, a vehicle or autonomous driving vehicle 100 mayinclude an antenna unit 108, a communication unit 110, a control unit120, a driving unit 140 a, a power supply unit 140 b, a sensor unit 140c, and an autonomous driving unit 140 d. The antenna unit 108 may beconfigured as a part of the communication unit 110. The blocks110/130/140 a to 140 d correspond to the blocks 110/130/140 of FIG. 40,respectively.

The communication unit 110 may transmit and receive signals (e.g., dataand control signals) to and from external devices such as othervehicles, BSs (e.g., gNBs and road side units), and servers. The controlunit 120 may perform various operations by controlling elements of thevehicle or the autonomous driving vehicle 100. The control unit 120 mayinclude an ECU. The driving unit 140 a may cause the vehicle or theautonomous driving vehicle 100 to drive on a road. The driving unit 140a may include an engine, a motor, a powertrain, a wheel, a brake, asteering device, etc. The power supply unit 140 b may supply power tothe vehicle or the autonomous driving vehicle 100 and include awired/wireless charging circuit, a battery, etc. The sensor unit 140 cmay acquire a vehicle state, ambient environment information, userinformation, etc. The sensor unit 140 c may include an inertialmeasurement unit (IMU) sensor, a collision sensor, a wheel sensor, aspeed sensor, a slope sensor, a weight sensor, a heading sensor, aposition module, a vehicle forward/backward sensor, a battery sensor, afuel sensor, a tire sensor, a steering sensor, a temperature sensor, ahumidity sensor, an ultrasonic sensor, an illumination sensor, a pedalposition sensor, etc. The autonomous driving unit 140 d may implementtechnology for maintaining a lane on which a vehicle is driving,technology for automatically adjusting speed, such as adaptive cruisecontrol, technology for autonomously driving along a determined path,technology for driving by automatically setting a path if a destinationis set, and the like.

For example, the communication unit 110 may receive map data, trafficinformation data, etc. from an external server. The autonomous drivingunit 140 d may generate an autonomous driving path and a driving planfrom the obtained data. The control unit 120 may control the drivingunit 140 a such that the vehicle or the autonomous driving vehicle 100may move along the autonomous driving path according to the driving plan(e.g., speed/direction control). In the middle of autonomous driving,the communication unit 110 may aperiodically/periodically acquire recenttraffic information data from the external server and acquiresurrounding traffic information data from neighboring vehicles. In themiddle of autonomous driving, the sensor unit 140 c may obtain a vehiclestate and/or surrounding environment information. The autonomous drivingunit 140 d may update the autonomous driving path and the driving planbased on the newly obtained data/information. The communication unit 110may transfer information about a vehicle position, the autonomousdriving path, and/or the driving plan to the external server. Theexternal server may predict traffic information data using AItechnology, etc., based on the information collected from vehicles orautonomous driving vehicles and provide the predicted trafficinformation data to the vehicles or the autonomous driving vehicles.

Examples of a Vehicle and AR/VR Applicable to the Present Disclosure

FIG. 43 illustrates a vehicle applied to the present disclosure. Thevehicle may be implemented as a transport means, an aerial vehicle, aship, etc.

Referring to FIG. 43, a vehicle 100 may include a communication unit110, a control unit 120, a memory unit 130, an I/O unit 140 a, and apositioning unit 140 b. Herein, the blocks 110 to 130/140 a and 140 bcorrespond to blocks 110 to 130/140 of FIG. 40.

The communication unit 110 may transmit and receive signals (e.g., dataand control signals) to and from external devices such as other vehiclesor BSs. The control unit 120 may perform various operations bycontrolling constituent elements of the vehicle 100. The memory unit 130may store data/parameters/programs/code/commands for supporting variousfunctions of the vehicle 100. The I/O unit 140 a may output an AR/VRobject based on information within the memory unit 130. The I/O unit 140a may include an HUD. The positioning unit 140 b may acquire informationabout the position of the vehicle 100. The position information mayinclude information about an absolute position of the vehicle 100,information about the position of the vehicle 100 within a travelinglane, acceleration information, and information about the position ofthe vehicle 100 from a neighboring vehicle. The positioning unit 140 bmay include a GPS and various sensors.

As an example, the communication unit 110 of the vehicle 100 may receivemap information and traffic information from an external server andstore the received information in the memory unit 130. The positioningunit 140 b may obtain the vehicle position information through the GPSand various sensors and store the obtained information in the memoryunit 130. The control unit 120 may generate a virtual object based onthe map information, traffic information, and vehicle positioninformation and the I/O unit 140 a may display the generated virtualobject in a window in the vehicle (1410 and 1420). The control unit 120may determine whether the vehicle 100 normally drives within a travelinglane, based on the vehicle position information. If the vehicle 100abnormally exits from the traveling lane, the control unit 120 maydisplay a warning on the window in the vehicle through the I/O unit 140a. In addition, the control unit 120 may broadcast a warning messageregarding driving abnormity to neighboring vehicles through thecommunication unit 110. According to situation, the control unit 120 maytransmit the vehicle position information and the information aboutdriving/vehicle abnormality to related organizations.

Examples of an XR Device Applicable to the Present Disclosure

FIG. 44 illustrates an XR device applied to the present disclosure. TheXR device may be implemented by an HMD, an HUD mounted in a vehicle, atelevision, a smartphone, a computer, a wearable device, a homeappliance, a digital signage, a vehicle, a robot, etc.

Referring to FIG. 44, an XR device 100 a may include a communicationunit 110, a control unit 120, a memory unit 130, an I/O unit 140 a, asensor unit 140 b, and a power supply unit 140 c. Herein, the blocks 110to 130/140 a to 140 c correspond to the blocks 110 to 130/140 of FIG.40, respectively.

The communication unit 110 may transmit and receive signals (e.g., mediadata and control signals) to and from external devices such as otherwireless devices, hand-held devices, or media servers. The media datamay include video, images, and sound. The control unit 120 may performvarious operations by controlling constituent elements of the XR device100 a. For example, the control unit 120 may be configured to controland/or perform procedures such as video/image acquisition, (video/image)encoding, and metadata generation and processing. The memory unit 130may store data/parameters/programs/code/commands needed to drive the XRdevice 100 a/generate XR object. The I/O unit 140 a may obtain controlinformation and data from the exterior and output the generated XRobject. The I/O unit 140 a may include a camera, a microphone, a userinput unit, a display unit, a speaker, and/or a haptic module. Thesensor unit 140 b may obtain an XR device state, surrounding environmentinformation, user information, etc. The sensor unit 140 b may include aproximity sensor, an illumination sensor, an acceleration sensor, amagnetic sensor, a gyro sensor, an inertial sensor, an RGB sensor, an IRsensor, a fingerprint recognition sensor, an ultrasonic sensor, a lightsensor, a microphone and/or a radar. The power supply unit 140 c maysupply power to the XR device 100 a and include a wired/wirelesscharging circuit, a battery, etc.

For example, the memory unit 130 of the XR device 100 a may includeinformation (e.g., data) needed to generate the XR object (e.g., anAR/VR/MR object). The I/O unit 140 a may receive a command formanipulating the XR device 100 a from a user and the control unit 120may drive the XR device 100 a according to a driving command of a user.For example, when a user desires to watch a film or news through the XRdevice 100 a, the control unit 120 transmits content request informationto another device (e.g., a hand-held device 100 b) or a media serverthrough the communication unit 130. The communication unit 130 maydownload/stream content such as films or news from another device (e.g.,the hand-held device 100 b) or the media server to the memory unit 130.The control unit 120 may control and/or perform procedures such asvideo/image acquisition, (video/image) encoding, and metadatageneration/processing with respect to the content and generate/outputthe XR object based on information about a surrounding space or a realobject obtained through the I/O unit 140 a/sensor unit 140 b.

The XR device 100 a may be wirelessly connected to the hand-held device100 b through the communication unit 110 and the operation of the XRdevice 100 a may be controlled by the hand-held device 100 b. Forexample, the hand-held device 100 b may operate as a controller of theXR device 100 a. To this end, the XR device 100 a may obtain informationabout a 3D position of the hand-held device 100 b and generate andoutput an XR object corresponding to the hand-held device 100 b.

Examples of a Robot Applicable to the Present Disclosure

FIG. 45 illustrates a robot applied to the present disclosure. The robotmay be categorized into an industrial robot, a medical robot, ahousehold robot, a military robot, etc., according to a used purpose orfield.

Referring to FIG. 45, a robot 100 may include a communication unit 110,a control unit 120, a memory unit 130, an I/O unit 140 a, a sensor unit140 b, and a driving unit 140 c. Herein, the blocks 110 to 130/140 a to140 c correspond to the blocks 110 to 130/140 of FIG. 40, respectively.

The communication unit 110 may transmit and receive signals (e.g.,driving information and control signals) to and from external devicessuch as other wireless devices, other robots, or control servers. Thecontrol unit 120 may perform various operations by controllingconstituent elements of the robot 100. The memory unit 130 may storedata/parameters/programs/code/commands for supporting various functionsof the robot 100. The I/O unit 140 a may obtain information from theexterior of the robot 100 and output information to the exterior of therobot 100. The I/O unit 140 a may include a camera, a microphone, a userinput unit, a display unit, a speaker, and/or a haptic module. Thesensor unit 140 b may obtain internal information of the robot 100,surrounding environment information, user information, etc. The sensorunit 140 b may include a proximity sensor, an illumination sensor, anacceleration sensor, a magnetic sensor, a gyro sensor, an inertialsensor, an IR sensor, a fingerprint recognition sensor, an ultrasonicsensor, a light sensor, a microphone, a radar, etc. The driving unit 140c may perform various physical operations such as movement of robotjoints. In addition, the driving unit 140 c may cause the robot 100 totravel on the road or to fly. The driving unit 140 c may include anactuator, a motor, a wheel, a brake, a propeller, etc.

FIG. 46 illustrates an AI device applied to the present disclosure. TheAI device may be implemented by a fixed device or a mobile device, suchas a TV, a projector, a smartphone, a PC, a notebook, a digitalbroadcast terminal, a tablet PC, a wearable device, a Set Top Box (STB),a radio, a washing machine, a refrigerator, a digital signage, a robot,a vehicle, etc.

Referring to FIG. 46, an AI device 100 may include a communication unit110, a control unit 120, a memory unit 130, an I/O unit 140 a/140 b, alearning processor unit 140 c, and a sensor unit 140 d. The blocks 110to 130/140 a to 140 d correspond to blocks 110 to 130/140 of FIG. 40,respectively.

The communication unit 110 may transmit and receive wired/radio signals(e.g., sensor information, user input, learning models, or controlsignals) to and from external devices such as other AI devices (e.g.,100 x, 200, or 400 of FIG. 37) or an AI server (e.g., 400 of FIG. 37)using wired/wireless communication technology. To this end, thecommunication unit 110 may transmit information within the memory unit130 to an external device and transmit a signal received from theexternal device to the memory unit 130.

The control unit 120 may determine at least one feasible operation ofthe AI device 100, based on information which is determined or generatedusing a data analysis algorithm or a machine learning algorithm. Thecontrol unit 120 may perform an operation determined by controllingconstituent elements of the AI device 100. For example, the control unit120 may request, search, receive, or use data of the learning processorunit 140 c or the memory unit 130 and control the constituent elementsof the AI device 100 to perform a predicted operation or an operationdetermined to be preferred among at least one feasible operation. Thecontrol unit 120 may collect history information including the operationcontents of the AI device 100 and operation feedback by a user and storethe collected information in the memory unit 130 or the learningprocessor unit 140 c or transmit the collected information to anexternal device such as an AI server (400 of FIG. 37). The collectedhistory information may be used to update a learning model.

The memory unit 130 may store data for supporting various functions ofthe AI device 100. For example, the memory unit 130 may store dataobtained from the input unit 140 a, data obtained from the communicationunit 110, output data of the learning processor unit 140 c, and dataobtained from the sensor unit 140. The memory unit 130 may store controlinformation and/or software code needed to operate/drive the controlunit 120.

The input unit 140 a may acquire various types of data from the exteriorof the AI device 100. For example, the input unit 140 a may acquirelearning data for model learning, and input data to which the learningmodel is to be applied. The input unit 140 a may include a camera, amicrophone, and/or a user input unit. The output unit 140 b may generateoutput related to a visual, auditory, or tactile sense. The output unit140 b may include a display unit, a speaker, and/or a haptic module. Thesensing unit 140 may obtain at least one of internal information of theAI device 100, surrounding environment information of the AI device 100,and user information, using various sensors. The sensor unit 140 mayinclude a proximity sensor, an illumination sensor, an accelerationsensor, a magnetic sensor, a gyro sensor, an inertial sensor, an RGBsensor, an IR sensor, a fingerprint recognition sensor, an ultrasonicsensor, a light sensor, a microphone, and/or a radar.

The learning processor unit 140 c may learn a model consisting ofartificial neural networks, using learning data. The learning processorunit 140 c may perform AI processing together with the learningprocessor unit of the AI server (400 of FIG. 37). The learning processorunit 140 c may process information received from an external devicethrough the communication unit 110 and/or information stored in thememory unit 130. In addition, an output value of the learning processorunit 140 c may be transmitted to the external device through thecommunication unit 110 and may be stored in the memory unit 130.

The above-described embodiments of the present disclosure are applicableto various mobile communication systems.

What is claimed is:
 1. A method of performing an operation for a firstuser equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the methodcomprising: transmitting, by the first UE, a physical sidelink sharedchannel (PSSCH) to a second UE; and transmitting, by the first UE to abase station (BS), feedback information based on a physical sidelinkfeedback channel (PSFCH) for the PSSCH on a physical uplink controlchannel (PUCCH), wherein a transmission timing of the PUCCH isdetermined based on information about the number of slots from the PSFCHto the PUCCH.
 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the feedbackinformation is hybrid automatic repeat request (HARD)-acknowledgment(ACK) information related to the PSFCH for the PSSCH.
 3. The methodaccording to claim 1, wherein the information about the number of slotsis included in downlink control information (DCI) received by the firstUE.
 4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the DCI is received on aphysical downlink control channel (PDCCH) related to the PSSCH.
 5. Themethod according to claim 1, wherein the information about the number ofslots is received through higher-layer signaling by the first UE.
 6. Themethod according to claim 1, further comprising receiving the PSFCH forthe PSSCH from the second UE by the first UE.
 7. An apparatus in awireless communication system, comprising: at least one processor; andat least one computer memory operatively coupled to the at least oneprocessor and storing instructions causing the at least one processor toperform operations, wherein the operations include: transmitting aphysical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) to a second user equipment (UE)by a first UE; and transmitting, to a base station (BS), feedbackinformation based on a physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) forthe PSSCH on a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) by the first UE,wherein a transmission timing of the PUCCH is determined based oninformation about the number of slots from the PSFCH to the PUCCH. 8.The apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the feedback information ishybrid automatic repeat request (HARD)-acknowledgment (ACK) informationrelated to the PSFCH for the PSSCH.
 9. The apparatus according to claim7, wherein the information about the number of slots is included indownlink control information (DCI) received by the first UE.
 10. Theapparatus according to claim 9, wherein the DCI is received on aphysical downlink control channel (PDCCH) related to the PSSCH.
 11. Theapparatus according to claim 7, wherein the information about the numberof slots is received through higher-layer signaling by the first UE. 12.A computer-readable storage medium storing at least one computer programincluding instructions which, when executed by at least one processor,cause the at least one processor to perform operations for a userequipment (UE), wherein the operations include: transmitting a physicalsidelink shared channel (PSSCH) to a second UE by a first UE; andtransmitting, to a base station (BS), feedback information based on aphysical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) for the PSSCH on a physicaluplink control channel (PUCCH) by the first UE, wherein a transmissiontiming of the PUCCH is determined based on information about the numberof slots from the PSFCH to the PUCCH.
 13. The apparatus according toclaim 7, wherein the first UE is an autonomous driving vehicle or isincluded in the autonomous driving vehicle.